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What an unusual winter – if you can even call it winter! Bees foraging – and bringing back pollen – well into November. Despite oxalic treatments, mite counts persisting right …

A Happy New Year to everyone, and best wishes for an excellent beekeeping season this coming year! I have resolved that I won’t make the same mistakes this year; instead, …

If there is ever an ‘off season’ part of beekeeping, we’re now entering it. But I haven’t found that there IS an ‘off season’; it’s more like ‘more busy’ and …

I think we deserve a rest!! It has been a season of packages and nucs, splitting and swarming, mite counting and treating, prepping the hives for winter, extracting and bottling, …

Well, the inevitable has happened – the delightful early fall weather has collapsed, and we are experiencing the harbinger of things to come this winter. And winter will be the …

The days are getting shorter, the temperatures a lot cooler, and it’s time to start preparing to overwinter our hives. While the good weather may continue for a good while …

Well, the season is definitely changing! This weekend I happened to drop my hive tool in front of the hives. On bending over to retrieve it, I noticed a significant …

In the last week I’ve noticed a dramatic drop-off in the number of foragers coming back laden with pollen; many are returning with skimpy loads, many with none at all …

This month I’ve included some somber news to start, but then some very optimistic news after that. Hive Survival At our May meeting, Shirley Richardson reported out on the Hive …

Website Password The password to the members-only side of our website has been changed for this year as it always does after our Annual General Meeting. The new password was …