As BeeWeaver gears up to take orders for spring 2012 bees and queens, I am reminded of how much beekeepers have changed in the last 2 decades. When I began answering phones and taking orders in 1994 nearly every customer had kept bees for decades, had 5 or more colonies, lived in rural areas,...
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The New Beekeeper
10/30/2011 - 19:07
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Stung by Heat and Drought in Texas
10/11/2011 - 12:54
That smoky smell isn’t from my bee smoker… sadly our part of Texas is on fire. Even if some parts of the prairies, hill country, big thicket, and south Texas brush aren’t a part of what is or has been on fire - it is burned by the record drought and heat. Burned up from...  |
Bee Venom... the Good and the Bad
03/31/2011 - 11:37
I was born the son of a beekeeper, who was a son of beekeeper, who was a son of beekeeper, who was….. Anyway, the bee venom runs deep. So deep that as a kid I developed the classic curse of a beekeeper’s offspring – severe allergies to bee proteins. Probably because I...  |
Bee-ginnings
03/14/2011 - 10:50
Every beekeeper, whether they have 1 hive or thousands, has a story of how they started. Some noticed their vegetable gardens were void of pollinators. Some remembered that their grandfather had bees and they decided to experience it for themselves, and pass the knowledge onto their...  |
Bee Mystery Solved?
10/14/2010 - 19:00
BeeWeaver's thoughts... The paper by Bromenshenk et al., recently published in PLoS One, adds to earlier work suggesting that CCD is characterized by bees which are infected with multiple pathogens. The new and controversial result presented by this group is that a virus never before identified... |
Latest Customer Buzz
 
Posted by Bruce & Carol from Texas
Both of our hives seem to be doing well and I got a couple of pictures of bees busy doing what bees do best. We are not sure how the honey will taste from these flowers, but we also have bee brush...
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Posted by Gerald Clough from Texas
Well, here I am. First hive, first bees. Nothing backing me up but the Centex Beekeepers Association one-day school and a lot of reading. Picked up my first package of Beeweavers on May 4 and...
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Posted by michael mcelroy from Texas
Worked these bees last week when they came in without any tools what so ever, Not one sting , some of the tames bees i have seen. I had to give them secound brood box today 1wk in and still didnt...
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