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...

This year (2022), August started out in the 60-degree range in East Jefferson County, WA, and by mid-month was in the 70s, up to 86 degrees or so. Swarming from overcrowded and overflowing honey bee...

In our area, summer weather often doesn't arrive until July 5--just a few hours too late for the July 4th fireworks show to be visible through the final rainstorm or low clouds of "June-uary." But...