Harrods is a retailer in London that caters to international royalty and is owned by the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar. You can buy a 12.5 Kg gold bar ‘off the shelf’. They are so exclusive that their new owner… Continue Reading →
A conversation between beekeepers One of the benefits of writing the BeeHacker blog is that I also get to meet interesting people from around the world. I recently started a dialog with Oleg Sadovskij, a Ukrainian beekeeper, a honey exporter,… Continue Reading →
We were recently gifted a hive from a family whose beekeeper son left for college. Having moved hives before, I figured it would be easy. This time I was wrong: Bees bearded up the front and back of the hive… Continue Reading →
We are still months away from the 2014 honey harvest and there are a few bottles of honey left from 2013…but they have all started to crystallize. Most people know that you can re-liquify crystallized honey with warm water. I… Continue Reading →
I was pleased to hear recently from Jamie Bucklin of Humboldt, California. Instead of the $16 luggage scale that I used in my hive scale, he built his scale with a $70-100 digital industrial hanging scale from American Weigh Scales. … Continue Reading →
“Scientists continue to hunt for the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD”. That statement presumes that there is a single cause and not a cascade of causes. It reflects the way we humans think – we naturally want to… Continue Reading →
It is that time of year when most of the blooms are gone. And with those blooms goes the abundance of food for bees. Being ever ambitious, honey bees are going to find dinner even if it means robbing it… Continue Reading →
Atlanta is hot but, at around 1000 feet above sea level, it is not usually as humid as Houston or Seattle. This year, however, it has been wet and humid. In the first half of 2013, Georgia has received the… Continue Reading →
I recently got an email from Frank Linton. Frank works at Mitre Corp and has been interested in hive monitoring for a long time. Last year, he organized the first workshop on hive monitoring at Eastern Apicultural Society’s annual conference… Continue Reading →
As if there were not enough pests that kills bees already, we can now add parasitic phorid fly to our list of worries. This fly, recently reported in PLoS, lays its eggs in the honey bee and this turns the… Continue Reading →
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