Holiday Gathering at Chimacum Grange: 9572 Rhody Drive (Hwy 19), Chimacum, WA December 2, 2023, from 9:00 a.m. to 11 a.m. Greetings EJBees!    Let’s celebrate the holiday season together...

My 25-year-old smoker had just not been working all that well for a couple of years.  It is an older style from Mann Lake, and the bellows assembly is still available as a separate unit….so I...

Not that you haven’t enough to do in early autumn, wrapping up summer’s harvest and processing crops and honey – but sometime in late September or so, your schedule may slow down and you can...

All those features described in the previous article on distinguishing bees and wasps (please see "Bees or Wasps | How to Tell Them Apart") are well and good when the insect sits relatively still...

Our EJBees Swarm Coordinator receives many-a phone call from people claiming to have a swarm of honey bees in their yard or home, most or many of which turn out to be yellow jacket wasps around their...

A beekeeping friend wondered what could be eating big holes in her lettuce leaves.  I asked whether they were very nice ROUND holes……why, yes indeed, they were, said she!  AHA!...