Tell Us Your Favorite Bee Stories

A Stunning Cross to Bear 
Early last season, I received a call about a swarm of honeybees from a retired gentleman in Sidney, New York. He just didn't know who to call about the ...

NYCPD Bee Cop 
Well, where do I begin, most of the fellow brother and sister beekeepers have seen or heard of me?

Having handled hundreds of swarms for the Dept. I ...

How I Got Started as a Bee Keeper.  
I am 75 years old and have been interested in bees for pollination of my back yard fruit trees for many years.

One day I was sitting in my living room ...

My Introduction to Honey Bees 
When I was about 15, the farmer that I had been working for throughout the summer asked me if I would be willing to help him put new rolled roofing on ...

Swarm on Camp Pendleton 
I had just finished up lunch this afternoon and went to step out of my office and was greeted by a good size swarm of bees flying in between our two ...

Beehave Yourself! 
I was in the plant business in South Florida for many years. I frequently shopped at other nurseries to find unique items I could resell (in addition ...

Exposed Honey Bee Hive. 
I found an exposed bee hive out in my timber today, it is about 30 feet in the air?

[Hi Craig

Thanks for the great picture. It amazes me that bees ...

Bella de Bon Terra Queen Bee 
In the Late summer of 2009 a Queen bee, an Italian honey bee, along with her attendants and workers and brood (previously laid eggs in cells) arrived from ...

No Bee Nest Removal 
I worked in an old house where we had a day school for retarded adults. This is a private school that gets government endowments and private money. The ...

Fourth of July Bee Invasion.... 
Love your site and wish I'd discovered your humane bee removal a couple of years ago when we had a bee swarm. It was over a holiday weekend so we paid ...

Honey Up To The Ears! 
It is curious, but of all the nests of bees that my brother and I could have found, the one which caught our attention was inside a statue.

Fortunately,...

Are You Really Allergic to Bee Stings? 
I was told this story by a beekeeper friend of mine. I think it's well worth passing along.

Many people claim to be allergic to bee stings. Obviously ...

The BEEginning of BEEing  
About a week ago (early June in Oregon) we noticed a swarm of bees clumped in a ball hanging from a branch on the side of the road to our lake.

There ...

I was told - 'Swarming Bees Don't Sting'! 
I tried to collect a swarm of bee in a tree a couple of years ago. I was wearing short pants and a short bee suit which only covered my top half, not my ...

Anniversary Beehive News  Not rated yet
My husband and I just went out for our anniversary dinner tonight (Oct. 2011). I broke the news to him I was getting a bee hive, which he'd told me several ...

Inundated with swarm calls in May  Not rated yet
I'm a small time hobby beekeeper, tending bees for 9 years (or is that being tended by them?) They over wintered 2010-2011 in this difficult Pacific NW ...

Bee Invasion  Not rated yet
Im new to Island County.

Just rented a Farm house and my neighbor has bee boxes on his property. I am aware of the need for bees and their importance ...

Bees at Ocean Beach Pier  Not rated yet
My wife and I spent the day fishing at Ocean Beach pier yesterday Aug 18 when at around 4 pm bees started converging on my wife's canopy chair roof.

They ...

THE Real Hummingbird Bee!  Not rated yet
Thought I'd share this picture with you of a hummingbird bee.

They love my Rudbeckia Hirta (Black-eyed Susan). This is zoomed in and cropped.

Enjoy!...

Swarm War?  Not rated yet
My brother and I were going down to our pond on our 20 acre farm near Woodbury TN. Well, maybe I should tell you that my brother has 3 hives on the other ...

Third Times a Charm  Not rated yet
This is the third time we've had a swarm stop by our house. First 2 times they made hives in our walls. Major mess! This time, they just spent the night ...

Swarming NYC Killer Bees 'go mental' Ahead of Lunar Eclipse!  Not rated yet
Wednesday, 15 June 2011

New York - Millions of bees are converging on New York ahead of Wednesday's lunar eclipse.

Swarms have been spotted flying ...

New York Relaxation of Bee Ban  Not rated yet
Hey Bee Guy,

Well, since the lift of the bee ban in the city obviously I have seen an increase in swarming.

This is a good thing for some of my ...

My Birdhouse grew a Beard Overnight!  Not rated yet
Got up at 6am today, and it looked like my small birdhouse hanging in a bush in my backyard had grown a beard!

On closer examination, I saw that it ...

Where Do I Place The Supers?  Not rated yet
New beekeepers come up with all kinds of questions for the mentor to answer.

One new beekeeper asked a manager at Dadant and Sons as she was buying ...

The Tractor and the Bee Hive  Not rated yet
I have an old hand crank Farmall Model A tractor with a belly mower, and was mowing the north pasture. I decided to make a swath between the fence and ...

Rapid Refill &
Partners for Sustainable Pollination!  Not rated yet
Partners for Sustainable Pollination (PFSP) applauds Rapid Refill as a valued ally and partner. The company has launched a special campaign involving ...

The Art of Bee-ing  Not rated yet
Wherein I give a complete accounting of a day I made a series of bee mistakes and the little bees made sure I learned how not to screw up so badly again ...

A Swarm Lands in our Yard!  Not rated yet



Friday when looking at my front yard I noticed a very large swarm of bees! I was completely shocked. My neighbors were upset and asked that ...

Beekeeping at Markham Farm 
The ongoing saga of a young beekeeper's first introduction to becoming a beekeeper.

If Walls Could Talk Instead of Just Buzzing  Not rated yet
I often wonder what is going inside the walls of the south side of my house. They certainly are all abuzz with activity. You see there was a small hole ...

Bees in the Wall of the Garage  Not rated yet
Hello,

Thank you so much for the pictures, I have shared them with a lot of people. They have been amazed.

My grandson, Ryan, took the honeycomb ...

Collecting a Swarm of Bees from a Pomegranate Tree  Not rated yet
You may be interested in seeing a video I just posted on Youtube for some of my friends around the world to see. I had to laugh the other day because I ...

Giant Bee Chases Me  Not rated yet
Greetings Geoff!

I have an odd bee encounter I would like to share with you. It happened on a hot summer day, when I was a little kid. I was just ...

Africanized Bees in Phoenix  Not rated yet
In March 2010 we were visiting friends in Phoenix who had a very large 8 year old feral colony about 20 feet up in a big mulberry tree in their front yard....

Treatment of Wounds With Honey - Amazing Results  Not rated yet
Hi Geoff,

I love your site, I'll be spending time on it learning over the next year or so. I would like to learn how to keep bees as my life and time ...

Friendly Little Honeybees  Not rated yet
This Spring and Summer I didn't see any honeybees, not even when the clover was in bloom. Last year I saw two and they were on my driveway and dying. I ...

Foreclosed Home with Busy Bee Sitting Tenants.  Not rated yet
I am shopping for real estate and went to see a home that's been foreclosed for 380 days, in an urban area in Richmond CA. All the windows were boarded ...

Desperation Bee Nest Removal  Not rated yet
I work for California State Parks at the Tijuana Estuary in Imperial Beach.

We were removing items and a small shed from the nursery yard to make room ...

Bee Removal Is a Fascinating Operation  Not rated yet
Last Friday as we were leaving for the weekend we noticed a number of bees flying around a corner of our yard in north Poway,California. When we returned ...