Musings of an Unseasoned Beeman

I checked on the hive today, and the new queen had been released from her cage.  As I checked over the hive, and didn’t see the new queen, but did see evidence of another queen in the hive.
This ‘other’ queen was being subjected to a serious amount of attention, and I wanted to know if [...]

A quick trip up to Autumn Morning Farm in Barre, MA after work last night will hopefully right this ship!  I picked up a new queen (with a matching green crown like her predecessor), and installed her in the hive today.
There’s still quite a bit of action in the hive, and hopefully they’re happy to [...]

I love learning about bees.  And I get to use all kinds of cool bee-terms like ’spotting’ and ‘queenright’.  Your hive is deemed ‘queenright’ if you have a good laying queen.  Since I’m operating under the suspicion that I have no queen, I checked in with one of the gurus.
I have been in a holding [...]