bees – David Sinclair

Last night during dinner, Jenn kindly shared the sugar on the rim of her beverage with some bees. 🍸🐝

Bee on sugary rim of glass

On the homestead blog: a quick post about our honey harvest yesterday. 🐝🍯

Honey harvest

Jars of honey

A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of watching activity on the Turquoise beehive:

A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of watching one of our beehives:

On the homestead blog: yesterday we did a beehive inspection and mite treatment. 🐝

Excessive cell building

Brood frame

Beehives

A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of trying to record the sound of hundreds of bees in a flowering tree, but the chickens were being too noisy:

Bees visiting a flowering tree; the tree is totally humming with them. 🌳🌼🐝

A bee in a tree

Flowering tree

Bee in a tree

Flowering tree

On the homestead blog: yesterday we did our first inspection of our beehives of the year, now that it’s warming up enough to open the hives. 🐝

Beehive frame

Beehives

My most popular @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video so far was this simple pan over our beehives; I guess people enjoy the bright colors (we do too):