I wonder whether honey bees pass the time telling stories during the long winter cluster, waggle-dancing their legends of exuberant spring blooms, describing fields of colorful flowers bursting with...

In our area, there is not a lot of work to be done in the apiary during December, although the bees will come out and fly any day that the weather and temperature allow. Unless we experience an...

There is often some good weather left in November between cold snaps, and the bees continue to bring in pollen--maybe too much! Old foragers, worn out after a hard-working life, may fly off at this...

Happy Halloween month! In October, the queens should be slowing down their brood production, but unusually warm weather seems to have encouraged them to keep on laying the full quota of eggs. A drop...

It still feels like summer, but winter is coming.  In the garden, tall autumn sunflowers are opening, cosmos and marigolds continue their glorious bloom, fall asters are coming on, but other...

October is a good time for planning and planting spring bulbs that will benefit honey bees and other pollinators in the early spring. For our East Jefferson County hardiness zones, which are...