Another one bites the dust

I’ll keep today’s post fairly short.  For starters, this past Friday I visited the apiary.  I was shocked to find that the very hive I found the queen in last week was completely empty 7 days later… Damn the luck.  I am now down to 7 hives. Also, since the bees have not built any…

Supersedure – Queen Cell

Very little knowledge is ever gained through success – it is through failure that we truly learn.   I’m sure I am not the first one to say that but nonetheless, it’s absolutely true.  So it is with beekeeping.  As Andrew Davis said in, The Wonders of Beekeeping, “Bees survive, not because of the beekeepers…