Sounds like a headline from The New York Times…except that drone warfare is usually a bit more covert and less advertised in the human world.  In the bee world, drones have nothing whatsoever to do with warfare. They are not harbingers of death and destruction.   They are a far cry from being warriors.  They are gentle, bumbling and…

I opened my new hive this afternoon with fear and trembling.  The one where the bee massacre happened. It was a mess inside.  Soft fluffy piles of newsprint were strewn across the hive floor.  The back of the hive was piled high with shredded paper and roly poly white worms. Outside the hive door was a little pile…

Sometimes learning what to do means suffering through what not to do. After ascertaining that my hive was queen-less, I began the search for a queen.  After my first cold call, DJ, a fellow beekeeper, kindly offered me a queen-less swarm which seemed to be thriving.  He is one of the bee whisperers in town. He…