Myers Honey

06/01/2026

The swarms keep coming. A quick time lapse of my work last Friday. I am going to post this info around, so if anyone wants to share; Please do. Once honeybees leave the parent colony, they are looking for a new home. For a beekeeper, we see a potential $100 hanging on this house. To most people they want the bees gone to a good new home. Yes, they will move on once they find a suitable home. Problem is sometime that suitable home for them is not were us humans want them. At the end of this video, you will see me putting green painter tape on this house. The bees were investigating moving in and the entrance was between cracks in the brick. If the bees would have moved in, it would be very costly to the homeowner to get them removed and insurance does not cover it. Any hole that you can put your little finger in bees can move into. Please call a local beekeeper when you see a swarm, they will be very willing to help you.

05/26/2026

I would like to thank Ironwood Golf Club for saving a swarm of bees Sunday.

05/23/2026

After my video last week with the swarms on the disk, one of my followers asked why bees do this? Here is my explanation of why bees swarm: Swarming is the way honeybees reproduce on the colony level. Let's say you and your family live in an apartment building, you cannot add on, so eventually you outgrow it. So, the old queen (the mom) and about half the workers (older working kids) leave to start a new colony. So now your family will have 2 apartment buildings. The bees that leave exit the hive and usually cluster close by. This is what is going on in my videos. While they are clustered, some of the workers are flying throughout the neighborhood looking for a hollow cavity to start the new colony. Once a scout bee finds an acceptable location she goes back to the cluster and does a waggle dance to tell other scout bees to check her location out. Once enough scout bees like the location, and they are all dancing about the same location, the cluster of bees will take to the air in a large swirling cloud of bees and fly to the location to start a new colony. Meanwhile back at the old colony, before the bees left, they started raising new queens to take over, they do not raise just 1 new queen but many. The first one to emerge tries to go around to kill any other new queens. Sometimes many queens emerge at the sometime and this can lead to additional swarms. In the video the large swarm was probably the initial swarm and the smaller one a secondary swarm. Bees swarm in the spring so they have all summer to build all the new comb and store enough honey to get through the winter so next spring this process starts all over.

05/20/2026

Judy and I are happy to announce that we are supplying Providence Bread honey for their baked goods.

Look what came in today! Roger dropped these liquid gold today!!! He was so kind to give us these to try and see if it works on our baked goods! I told him it's probably gonna make it even better! ;-) So excited to use Myers Honey on our products! 🥰

05/19/2026

This video of swarming bees was shot last Tuesday at the start of last week's escapade.

05/17/2026

This video was shot Friday morning, one more Friday afternoon and one last Saturday made a total of 10 caught swarms for the week. I thought I had the bees under control this year. Every time I catch a swarm, I hear my friend Jamie Walters saying "good beekeepers don't let their bees swarm" and I tell him "Dead bees don't swarm" as if my bees died last winter, they could not swarm in the spring.

05/11/2026

This is called "just in time beekeeping". Varroa mites are public enemy #1 in beekeeping. The mites prefer to reproduce in drone brood because they can get more viable offspring in each generation. So, I allow the bees to raise drones on the bottom of a frame so I can remove them and eliminate a lot of mites. These drones were about to emerge, if they had, I would have added to the mite population.

04/18/2026

Swarming season in the beekeeping world is upon us. I retrieved these bees Friday night off of a post and rain gauge. If you see a swarm of bees, please call a beekeeper. Most swarms are not aggressive, in fact the 3 generations of the Jane Dominquie family watched me gather these bees up from about 15 feet away. Do not spray them. Swarm retrievals don't get any easier than this one and can only go up from here (literally).

04/11/2026

Some of the girls enjoying the sunshine today. It is great to see at least 3 different colors of pollen goin into the hive.

04/03/2026

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