Adams Rustic Mitten Bee Ranch LLC

04/29/2025

Our honey is now available at DEE’S QUICK BITES in Edenville, Michigan

Stop and try Dee’s delicious menu and grab some local honey for your allergies!

04/29/2025

🏠 BEE COLONY ORGANIZATION FACTS

Bees are highly social insects with a well-structured division of labor. Here are some fascinating facts about their organization:

🏠 STRUCTURE OF A BEEHIVE

• The hive consists of many small hexagonal cells called honeycomb, which serve as nurseries for larvae and storage for honey.

• Bees use beeswax to build the hive, making it strong and space-efficient.

👑 THREE MAIN CASTES IN A COLONY

1. Queen Bee 🐝👑The only reproductive female in the hive.
Can lay up to 2,000 eggs per day.
Releases pheromones to control the behavior and unity of the colony.

2. Worker Bees 🐝💼The most numerous members, all female but sterile.
Perform multiple tasks: collecting nectar, guarding the hive, feeding larvae, and cleaning.
Live for about six weeks in summer but can survive longer in winter.

3. Drone Bees (Male Bees) 🐝🔵Their sole purpose is to mate with the queen.
After mating, they die immediately.
In winter, worker bees expel drones from the hive to conserve food.

🧭 HOW BEES COMMUNICATE

• Worker bees perform the "waggle dance" to indicate the location of food sources.

• They use pheromones to send signals, such as alerting others of danger or guiding them to nectar.

🔥 HIVE DEFENSE

• When threatened, worker bees sacrifice themselves by stinging intruders.

• Some species, like Japanese honeybees, can swarm around an enemy (such as a hornet) and vibrate their bodies to generate heat, fatally overheating the predator.

🍯 THE BEEHIVE: A PERFECT SOCIETY

• Every bee has a specific role and works tirelessly to sustain the colony.

• No bee is lazy or independent; they all cooperate to maintain a well-organized social system.

01/05/2025

This is a neat way to check on your bees in the winter. I can monitor the temp inside some of the hives I’ve selected and also monitor their honey stores with the scale feature! 🍯 🐝

10/14/2024

Bottled up 100 bottles of honey today 🍯
They are heading to Demascus, VA next weekend!

05/08/2024

We have had 1 bear, back in 2020, come for our bees but the electric fence stopped it then - and in all these years, we still, have never had a problem. Knock on wood 🪵

This is in our woods - April 2024

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10/11/2023

🍯 Our photos won some contests 🍯

We got a place in the 2024 calendar and we also got front cover of the last magazine cover 🐝

06/21/2023

Hey I’m watching The Pollinators! Amazing video!

Check it out now on Prime Video!

Amazon.com: The Pollinators : Bret Adee, Jack Algiere, Jeff Anderson, Alan Ard, Dan Barber, Leigh-Kathryn Bonner, Zak Browning, Glenn Card, Steve CLarke, Lucas Criswell, William Criswell, James Frazier PhD, Maryann Frazier, Christina Grozinger PhD, Dave Hackenberg, Davey Hackenberg, Bob Harvey, Neil...

06/17/2023

MSU Extension bee courses. Yesterday was a hygienic class and today is all about queen rearing! Always neat to hear how others do things! 🍯🐝🍯

06/06/2023

We did 13 more splits on May 27.

I just checkered these frames yesterday because they weren’t moving over to the right.

All the splits should have the queen returning soon and I should see eggs by June 11 if my chart is correct! 🍯🐝🍯🐝🍯

05/25/2023

Visited Bob Binnie’s store in Georgia today!
If you are in the area, it is a very nice store!