Bee Blog

April 12, 2022 By Bill O’Hern What is swarming? Swarming is the natural way the honeybee propagates the species. It turns a healthy strong hive into two or more hives.  Thus enabling the honeybee...

December 28, 2021 I hope you had a great Holiday Season so far!  I hope your bees are doing well.  Beekeepers are reporting that they are feeding their hives more this year than other years. ...

December 21, 2021 Hope you are all well and your bees are now all tucked in for the winter.  Wishing you a joyous holiday season and a healthy and happy New Year in 2022! As you probably know, New York...

December 10, 2021 It is hard to believe that we are just getting our colonies winterized and we are writing about spring readiness.  That is because now is the time to place orders for...

October 16, 2021 Have you done a varroa count lately?  Several beekeepers have told me their tale of whoa, of finding a substancial jump in their counts in the last couple of weeks.  The picture...

March 15, 2021 Catch-Shotgun Merger Update: Success! Thanks to my co-workers covering for me, I got to run home for 30 minutes to check on the crew during daylight hours. All of Catch’s girls have...

March 10, 2021 The weather has been warm and the bees flying out and hopefully finding the first pollen from Crocus, Witchazel, and Skunk Cabbage if any of these are nearby. You may be wondering, should I...

March 6, 2021 Been worrying about Queen Catch’s hive the last two weeks or so. My gut has been tellingme something was amiss. When I cracked the hive lid last week to check their food supply,it seemed...