Mae Bees

05/17/2020

Great swarm of happy bees!

We received a call about honey bees in a tree at the entrance of a neighborhood. The caller was walking with her young daughter and they got to witness the bees swarming into the tree. They said the swarm was so big the...

04/20/2020

Its swarm season!

Honey Bees swarm in the spring and fall. In the spring swarms are more common and are usually a large group of honeybees. Swarming is a natural process for honeybees. I will explain the reasons later why they swarm, but ...

04/09/2020

What a cutout! The bees ended up going down into the bricks. I had to careful pull the combs up and out. The bees are doing great and loving their new hives.

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04/03/2020

I had a colony of bees investigating the swarm traps that I placed through out my apiary for four-days. It took them some time to choose a new hive because they had a lot of options. This was a learning experience to wa...

04/02/2020

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03/31/2020

What a nice swarm! Love helping by removing honeybees.

We received a call about a swarm of bees in the back yard against a face. The homeowners had a young child that was very interested in the bee swarm. That was until I put on my bee suit, the suit does look a like hazmat...

02/26/2020

spring is just around th corner

The weather is about to get warm and the winter solstice is about over. The days are starting to get longer and drone bees are starting to emerge. It's time to start thinking about swarms, swarm traps and their local. Lo...

02/21/2020

Just a little dusting of snow!

01/13/2020

To warm to be thinking about winter

Here in NC the weather is crazy. Its January and this weekend was in the 70's, this is not always the case. In my area the coldest weather is in late January - March. We can also get a deep freeze in April. With that sai...

12/09/2019

What are you doing in winter?

09/04/2019

It’s time to melt beeswax in the apiary. I do two different melts based off the type of wax. What this means is that the capping and lighter wax is done in my first run. Then I do the darker used comb next. I am a smalle...

08/24/2019

My newest hive!

After getting home, I was feeding my chickens and I noticed that there was a large swarm of bees in the tree just above the chicken yard. This swarm of bees was none typical for mid-August. The swarms in this area during...