Big Timber Bees

Big Timber Bees BTB was started in the spring of 2025 as a hobby and strives to bring high quality raw honey to your home

It’s hot out! When the colony becomes too big for everyone to fit inside, someone has to sleep outside. This is one way ...
08/28/2026

It’s hot out!

When the colony becomes too big for everyone to fit inside, someone has to sleep outside.

This is one way bees regulate the temperature of the hive, by keeping unnecessary body heat out.

One of the best parts of bee keeping: Bees will do your dishes for you. If you dont want to clean up your sticky mess,...
08/25/2026

One of the best parts of bee keeping:

Bees will do your dishes for you. If you dont want to clean up your sticky mess, just set your extractor outside.

The bees will be more the happy to clean it up and take the honey back to their house.

Empty honey boxes ready for storage. Overall, harvest went well and yield was good.
08/22/2026

Empty honey boxes ready for storage.

Overall, harvest went well and yield was good.

Uncapping and extracting! What a sweet job!
08/19/2026

Uncapping and extracting! What a sweet job!

Just a couple honey boxes ready for extraction
08/17/2026

Just a couple honey boxes ready for extraction

08/06/2026

Light em’ up

08/04/2026

Snack time! These girls came to check out the mess in progress and help clean up.

When adding a new honey box to a hive it can be helpful to add some honey. This helps the bees go find the new space and begin to use it.

It was time to remove the oxalic acid strips the other day. These strips have a slow release acid that helps control mit...
07/30/2026

It was time to remove the oxalic acid strips the other day.

These strips have a slow release acid that helps control mites in the colony.

We use oxalic acid as it occurs naturally in honey, and can be found in many leafy greens such as spinach. This helps reduce mites without synthetic chemicals.

07/28/2026

Queen spotting:

Hint this one is easier as she is marked.

Word on the street is ants don’t like cinnamon, and bees don’t mind it.So far, that is correct.
07/23/2026

Word on the street is ants don’t like cinnamon, and bees don’t mind it.

So far, that is correct.

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