All Cherokee Bee Club meetings are canceled until further notice due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic! We look forward to seeing you as soon as the pandemic is over! Now get into and enjoy those bees and practice your social distancing! Stay healthy my friends…
Our Annual Spring Hands-On Field Trip will be rescheduled tentatively for Saturday, April 4, 2020 (due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic) – (Packages, Splits, Nucs, Beginning and Advanced Workshop) – Host: Ken Bobo – Location: Bob McKenzie’s 8:30AM – 11:00AM – 592 Town Creek Dr.…
Written by MOLLY SAMUEL • FEB 10, 2020 For original article at WABE click here. CREDIT PIXABAY When it’s cold, honey bees cluster together in their hives feeding on the honey they saved to eat through the winter, vibrating to generate warmth. “The bees are…
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BJ Weeks, owner of Weeks Works, currently has two and three pound packages available for sale for differing dates this spring. He expects to be sold out by February, so order NOW! You can download the flier here . Tip: Make sure to attend the…
By Paige Embry, Undark Magazinesmithsonian.comSeptember 30, 2019Read the original and full article here. Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGvFollow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter Virtually everyone in the beekeeping business will tell you that the biggest threat facing honeybees isn’t pesticides, starvation, or even the…
September 10, 2019Article written by Derek Mitchell, The Conversation View the original article here. Credit: Aleksandr Gavrilychev/Shutterstock Despite the importance of nests to honey bees, the hives we build them bear little resemblance and have few of the properties of the natural tree nests European…
Article by: Adam Allington and David Schultz May 23, 2019 View the full article here. Initially, there were three types of European honeybees put to work in the New World. But the Italian honeybees, which were bred to be docile and produce high volumes of…
Written by Jeff Crum with Spectrum News Read the entire article here. Yes, perhaps, bees can predict the weather. The study found that the honey bees, on days prior to rainy days, spent more time out of the hive foraging for honey as compared to…
By Madeline Farber | Fox News To read the full article click here “It’s swarm season! If you see a large cloud of bees congregating somewhere or a large cluster of them hanging on a branch, sign, fence post, etc, DO NOT BE FRIGHTENED! These…
