Musings of a reluctant beekeeper

*To anyone reading this blog - I am not a professional beekeeper. I don't even play one on t.v. If you opt to take advise from me, do so at your own risk.   Yesterday was our weekly bee feeding. If read my last blog, I mentioned a "super." The easy definition of a "super" is an extra box on top of your beehive use to "gather" honey. Beekeepers will add a queen excluder on top of the bee box before adding the super. The honeybees are small enough to pass through the super and start making honey in the super. The queen can't squeeze her fat bottom past the excluder. I am not body shaming the queen - after all she has to manage the hive, make new baby bees and generally deal with any issues with the hive. So, she is entitled to her crown and to quote the Queen, "fat bottom girls make the rocking world go round!"   After falling into the rabbit hole of beekeeping, I learned that with our Texas heat, you don't want to add a super ...

Hello blogging world! Is this still a thing?! I really am doing this to put all my beekeeping knowledge in one place. We got hee-bee-gee-bees! No really, we got bees. 13 hives to be exact. We have had bees for a year now and I have been helping care for these socialist bugs for the past few months. I buy about 50 - 60 lbs of sugar a week. When it is hot like it has been (6 weeks of 100 degree weather), they get a gallon of sugar water once a week. Once I get my thoughts organized - and trust me, there are a lot of thoughts in there, I will get them. But for now, here is a my fun fact - you add a super when 7/10 frames are full. Stay tuned for more un-bee-lievable stuff!