I was almost done with a post on Bee Math. The concept that if you know how long things take, you’ll know with a high degree of certainty when certain things will happen. For example, I got the idea after popping the cover of Yard Hive I and finding a handful of queen cells (DAMNIT). I know immediately that my queen has died and they are working to replace her. Now because I know that once a queen cell is capped, the queen will hatch in 8 days, and should have mated and will be laying eggs in 20 days, then all I had to do was mark the calendar and come back to mark my new queen...
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The hypotenuse of a hexagon divided by pi = (E=MC2)...EURIKA!!! I’ve done it! What was that? That’s not the kind of math we’re talking about? That’s just as well...math was never my strong suit. I’d have been lucky to get a B(ee) 🤦🏻♂️
Read moreBlame my Blues on the (Lack of) Rain
I have been super stressed lately about the lack of rain this year, which is both unlike me and I’ve found that people have just not shared in my concern. I had been having a hard time explaining why exactly I am so unnerved until speaking with an employee at Backwoods Bees, in Windham. “If there’s no rain, there’s no nectar flow...and if there’s no nectar flow, there’s no honey”.
Read moreYou Applied the Pressure (That Helped Me Crystalize)
While I am a huge fan of The XX, it’s not pressure that crystallizes honey...and it’s doesn’t mean the honey has gone bad (phew!). As a matter of fact, raw unpasteurized honey with all it’s amazing nutrition is MORE likely to crystallize than commercially sold varieties (for more on the difference, see our Blog What’s the Difference).
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