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...

Honey Extraction This past Sunday, August 10, 2014, we took our frames of honey from our backyard beehives to be extracted down at Dako...

Today was a lovely warm sunny day. It was a great day for working in the yard, not only for me, but also for the industrious creatures out ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

The days are getting so short and the nights long right now near Denver, Colorado. It's cold and windy outside, the trees are bare and t...