Diamond M Honey

05/26/2026

This colony is working on producing a new queen. If you look 👀 closely at the frame, you can see several different capped queen cells.

A honey bee colony will “requeen” itself when the bees decide they need a new queen to keep the hive strong and productive. This can happen for a few different reasons:

🐝 The queen is getting old – Older queens lay fewer eggs and produce fewer pheromones (the chemical signals that keep the colony organized). The workers notice this decline quickly.

🐝 The queen is injured or dies – If the queen suddenly disappears, the colony must act fast to survive.

🐝 The colony wants to swarm – In spring and early summer, a strong hive may raise a new queen before the old queen leaves with part of the colony to form a new hive.

To requeen, worker bees select a few very young larvae and feed them large amounts of royal jelly. This special diet turns an ordinary female larva into a queen. Once the new queen emerges, she mates and begins laying eggs to continue the colony’s survival.

05/17/2026

Packing the good stuff into supers 🙌🏼

Can you see the glossy, sheen in the honey comb? Honey season is slowly starting 🍯 🐝

05/13/2026

It’s pretty wild how fast the bees can build out a new frame. 🐝

How does it happen?

Honey bees build wax comb by producing tiny wax flakes (see visual a few posts ago) from glands on their abdomen. Worker bees chew the wax, shape it into perfect hexagon cells, and use it to store honey, pollen, and raise baby bees. It’s one of nature’s most amazing construction projects happening right inside the hive! 🐝🍯

05/12/2026

Can you spot the eggs?

When checking your hives, one thing to always look out for is eggs! They look like a small piece of rice, standing on end.

It’s a quick check to make sure your queen is present and your hive is continuing to grow 🐝

05/10/2026

POLLEN! 🌺
All the workers are gathering pollen and bringing it back to the hive. Look at the white/yellow spots on their legs 👀

How do they do accomplish this? Honey bees collect pollen by landing on flowers and brushing the tiny pollen grains onto their fuzzy bodies. They then use their legs to pack the pollen into little “pollen baskets” on their back legs and carry it back to the hive to feed the colony, especially growing baby bees. 🐝

Now you know!

05/09/2026

One of the young beekeepers has a good eye. He spotted this beautiful new queen tonight and Lance got her marked 🐝

He kept digging through the hive and found the other queen in there as well. Plus some other capped queen cells 🥴🤷🏻‍♀️

Lance pulled the old queen and we will let the new one do her thing. 👑

05/08/2026

Just a new QUEEN doing QUEEN things… 👑

Sometimes it’s just fun to watch them 🐝

05/07/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/1B8U3C2ENB/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Every drop of honeycomb is built with patience, precision, and the unstoppable work of tiny bees. 🐝✨
It takes 12 hours for a bee to produce just 8 wax flakes, and nearly 500,000 wax flakes to create 1 pound of honeycomb — a masterpiece of nature crafted one tiny piece at a time. 🍯
Bees may be small, but their dedication builds entire worlds of sweetness.
Each wax flake carries the effort of countless flights, flowers, and hours of teamwork.
The next time you see honeycomb, remember: it’s not just honey — it’s the result of millions of tiny miracles.

05/06/2026

Check out how many empty queen cages we ended up with 👑

Pretty quick task of making sure she was free within the hive — — we did find one queen still scooting around in the plastic cage when we checked so we got her released into the hive 🙌🏼 🐝

12/28/2025

A spoonful a day keeps the doctor away….. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Maybe so, maybe no, but we will sure try!

If you need some honey to make sure you get your spoonful a day, let us know!