Tax deductions for bees?
Imagine if a bill was passed that offered farmers the option of installing bee colonies on their land in exchange for tax deductions – Jonathan O Do you remember the …
Washboarding Bees
Washboarding: a curiosity of beekeeping? Washboarding is an interesting behavior where bees walk back and forth in a ‘washboarding dance’, for reasons apparently unknown to beekeeping. Some speculate the bees do …
EyesOnHives at the Oregon Honey Festival 8/20
National Honey Bee Day is August 20th Join EyesOnHives at the Oregon Honey Festival for National Honey Bee Day, this Saturday August 20th. Happy National Honey Bee Day! Plant flowers, …
Citizen Science & Tech Helping Bees Livecast – EyesOnHives
Check out the 45minute livecast and Q&A session with EyesOnHives project lead Kelton Temby. Livecast date: June 30th. Title: Citizen Science & Tech Helping Bees Livecast – EyesOnHives Length: 46mins, transcript …
Yellow Faced Bumblebee Bombus Vosnesenskii
This beautiful bee is Bombus Vosnesenskii, the native Yellow Faced Bumblebee. You can imagine our surprise and joy to see this amazing creature dancing from flower to flower in the …
Fermentation: Bee Pollen to Bee Bread
Ever wonder if there’s a bee Picasso inside your hive, creating works of art with her palette of bee pollen? A hive inspection often includes joy and surprise at the simple …
What’s on the Beehive’s Landing Board?
EyesOnHives quantifies flight activity levels – the signal creates a record of forager activity, orientation, swarming, robbing etc. You can look for things like what’s happening on the landing board, and pollen …
Of Mice, Men, and Bee Swarms
If you haven’t seen or heard about a few bee swarms yet, then you probably don’t live in the southern part of the United States. Swarm season is in full …
Cranky Bees? Don’t get mad at them, find out why!
Most of the cranky hives right now have cranky bees because their brood nest is filling up with honey, and they’re preparing to swarm. How to know the bees are preparing …
Raising Queens the Easy Way
It’s swarm season to be sure, but it’s certainly also splitting season! Bees being in swarming mode means we can also have an easier time raising queens! My Queen rearing is …