Beeclipse Apiary

Beeclipse Apiary A small hobbyist beekeeper in Milford, Massachusetts.

06/19/2026

For any of our bourbon barrel aged honey 🍯 fans. Copper & Cask L&K BB Queen has been bottled and is now available at Julio’s Liquors.

You always hate to do it, but a mite check is an important assessment of the health of a hive. Our largest hive was chec...
06/17/2026

You always hate to do it, but a mite check is an important assessment of the health of a hive. Our largest hive was checked and we found 4 varroa mites per 300 bees. Ideally we’d like to see 0, but 1-2 is acceptable. As such, we started an organic mite treatment (perfect weather and temperatures for it as well), and we’ll check on them again in two weeks.

06/17/2026

It’s been a rough spring at Beeclipse. Our overwintered queens did not start the new year as healthy as we wanted. In May we moved what remaining bees we had in our weakest hive into a NUC and put a new, healthy Pol-line Italian NUC into the empty hive. That new colony has exploded and is even pulling in honey! We continued to give the other 2 hives some time to rebound, but it became painfully obvious that the older Carniolan queens just weren’t up to the challenge. And as such, two weeks ago we dispatched the 3 poorly performing queens and installed 3 new Pol-line queens. Currently they have all taken and it’s obvious they are laying eggs very, very well. While this is a huge boost to the health of our little apiary, it does mean that our Spring honey production has been virtually non-existent. We remain hopeful that the new queens can right the ship and generate some summer/fall honey. Time will tell.

🏀 March Madness Sale! 🏀Bourbon Barrel Aged Honey6 oz Jar $20 … Now $15!1 lb Jar $45 … Now $35!And we still have a limite...
03/20/2026

🏀 March Madness Sale! 🏀

Bourbon Barrel Aged Honey
6 oz Jar $20 … Now $15!
1 lb Jar $45 … Now $35!

And we still have a limited stock of the standard honey from the 2025 season.

Message us if you need any honey! 🍯

03/11/2026

Yesterday in the 70s. Today in the 60s. The 🐝 got a chance to stretch their legs. A few were even bringing in full buckets of bright yellow Spring pollen! ☀️🌱

A gorgeous sight to see in early February!
02/03/2026

A gorgeous sight to see in early February!

Pure and untouched. How the snowy hives looked this morning after that crazy storm. Though the 🐝 are all nestled in, we ...
01/26/2026

Pure and untouched. How the snowy hives looked this morning after that crazy storm. Though the 🐝 are all nestled in, we did need to make sure their entries were clear and free of obstruction.

Our customers often ask us what kind of pollen our bees use to make our honey…and we’ve never really been sure! Bees can...
11/15/2025

Our customers often ask us what kind of pollen our bees use to make our honey…and we’ve never really been sure! Bees can fly up to 4 miles from the hive and return safely, so who knows what they find out there? Well, as it turns out, there is a way to find out! This year, for the first time, we sent a sample of our honey in to be DNA tested at Penn State University. We were really interested to see the results! (Since one of us is a geneticist, this was super fun.) 

As it turns out, our honey is largely made from bittersweet. We suppose the best way to classify our honey would be “wildflower honey”, although it does have a very high percentage of lilac compared to most honey! 

Hello, Beeclipse fans! We realize we haven't posted much this season, and we feel badly about that, but there was a goo...
11/15/2025

Hello, Beeclipse fans! We realize we haven't posted much this season, and we feel badly about that, but there was a good reason! We were working on a very special project and partnership with the Loch & Key Whisk(e)y Society at Julio's Liquors in Westborough. They reached out to us last season about the possibility of working together to create bourbon barrel-aged honey...and we were stoked to try it!

This spring, we took 130 pounds of our spring honey up to Julio's, where it was put into a barrel seasoned with a very nice, premium bourbon (for legal reasons, we cannot post the name of the bourbon, but if you are interested you can certainly reach out to us to ask!). It aged in the barrel for almost three months before we pulled it out, and the results were outstanding! The honey was screened using a very fine cloth to remove all the material from the barrel, but it has acquired rich, complex flavors of oak, smoke, vanilla, and of course...bourbon.

We are so excited and proud to offer this very limited release, in addition to our regular honey, just in time for the holidays! Local honey makes a fabulous gift, especially when you're not sure what to get someone! If you are interested in purchasing any of our honey, please reach out to us by PM! Prices are below:

Regular honey, 1 lb. jar (we have both spring and fall harvests): $15
Bourbon barrel-aged honey, 6 oz. jar: $20
Bourbon barrel-aged honey, 1 lb. jar: $45

(And for those bourbon fans out there, Julio's is currently using that same barrel to now age their selected bourbon! So in a few months, they will be bottling bourbon aged with our honey - keep an eye out with them if you're interested!)

Do you ever wonder what plants our bees are collecting nectar and pollen from that generates such a delicious honey? 🤔 W...
08/25/2025

Do you ever wonder what plants our bees are collecting nectar and pollen from that generates such a delicious honey? 🤔 Well, we do too. And because we want to know, we are submitting samples 📦 of our spring and early summer honey to be pollen DNA 🧬 tested at the Penn State Honey and Pollen Diagnostic Lab. We suspect the results will be very eye opening!

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