Old Glory Bees & Honey

06/17/2026

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06/13/2026

A long day but there were a few moments in between that made it worth it.

06/12/2026

The girls are a little hot! Check comments for a video!

06/11/2026

Here's looking at a sweet season.
Orientation flights, sunshine and fencing because there have been lots of bear sightings already.

06/10/2026

Queens! 🤦 Just when you think you were a step ahead and understand what they are doing the hive decides to make you really work for it.
This is a queen castle which means it is where we put grafted eggs for a hive to make queen cells. There is no queen in this hive when we start and that makes the bees create one. A hive has to be balanced. A queen has to have workers and workers have to have a queen.
That is great except sometimes they do something we didn't see. They create a queen cell somewhere we don't see instead of using the cells we provide.
Hives operate on contingency plans. Usually they have at least one spare cell not in use but ready to use when needed. They choose several and when the first queen hatches she destroys the rest or if multiple hatch they fight for the top spot.
Anyway, we missed one and she is somewhere in this hive. We know because there are fresh eggs being laid and there is not supposed to be a queen in this box.
We cannot make new queens in this situation with one floating around in here. So the hunt was on to find her, rehome her in a different hive and place a graft bar in this specific box.
Spoiler alert, an hour later and searching frame by frame the where's Waldo search for the elusive queen is 0 to this beekeeper, 1 to the queen.
We'll try again later
Some days you just have to know when it's time to stop and walk away.
~Bev~

06/05/2026

So true! While I haven't heard all variations I have heard many from the hive and it is amazing the communication they have.
At a vendor event a while ago I was talking to a sound therapist and she pointed out that the sound wave from hives is one of the most healing. I don't understand much about hertz or megahertz but it was a fascinating conversation.
The similar comparison would be music. The undertone to beats and vocals can either soothe or aggravate a person. Bees are similar.
Either way they are fascinating.
~Bev~