Today is a lovely day. The sun is shining and the temperature is in the upper sixties. Just two weeks ago the temperature was minus 10, so I...

Today was a glorious warm sunny day - one of the best we've had so far this year. The sun was out, the temperature was warm and the w...

Honeybee - Apis melifera   photo by C. Netter Greg, the beekeeper has started a Kickstarter project to fund Bee Town USA . This will be...

Today is National Honey bee Day http://www.nationalhoneybeeday.com/

Honey bees need a good source of water. They need this for more than just hydration of themselves as individuals, they also use water for ...

Apparently pollen from Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) is particularly sticky. This poor bee is covered in it and had some trouble fly...

I'd always heard that honey bees were necessary for pollination for many of the plants we eat. That is quite true, but there are some ...

For almost a week the bees of hive 6 have been washboarding. Washboarding is the term used for bees rhythmically rocking back and forth in ...

This past Sunday I was out taking pictures of the sunflowers and noticed four different species of bee on this particular blossom. All bee...

Greg, the Beekeeper , just sent me a link to the Anythink Library Bee Cam. He has two hives at the Commerce City, Colorado location and the ...

It's probably only thousands of bees, but it looks like a lot to me. I just put out a fresh pan of honey comb for the bees to cle...

Continuing from the previous post ... I used to think that honey bees did the vast majority of pollination in my yard here in Jefferson Co...

Today the beekeeper came over to see how the hives are doing. I stood back and took lots of pictures which can be seen in this slide view: ...

Recently, the beekeeper who has hives in my yard brought over some comb for the bees to clean up. The bees eagerly went to work cleaning th...

Back in late May a local beekeeper advertised on Denver's Craigslist that he was looking for places to put his hives in exchange for s...