Waupaca's Dancing Bear Apiary

03/20/2026

Our bees arrived back from California today! Now starts preparations for the summer Honey season 

02/11/2026

We will be open our regular hours starting
Saturday February 14th.
Tuesday - Saturday 11AM-2PM

Thanks for your understanding while we were prepping our honeybee colonies for almond pollination in California.

01/20/2026

11/02/2025

Well, 50 years of spending time with bugs. Finished up the honey harvest and shipped the bees West to California where we will start it all over again in January.

A lot has changed in 50 years I have been keeping bees and a lot has stayed the same!

03/29/2025

After finishing up almond pollination , our bees loaded and left California last night. Soon they will be back in Wisconsin for the summer honey season!

03/02/2025

What do our honeybees do during the Wisconsin winter? Here's the story.

After giving them a rest/spa treatment in the climate controlled warehouse in Idaho, they move down to California for almond pollination and a jump on the seasons to get ready for the Wisconsin honey season.

BeeHero takes you on a journey into the heart of California’s Central Valley to experience the miracle of the largest pollination event on the planet — the a...

02/05/2025

Our bees arrived in California in early January fresh out of cold storage in Idaho where they spent several months relaxing. We traveled out to California to go through them and give them some feed and pollen substitute to help wake them up! Now they have been moved into almonds for pollination. They will arrive back in Wisconsin about April 1st!

05/26/2024

The result of meeting your wife on a country road -- a photo op.

05/26/2024

What’s the buzz? To find out what's happenin', you’ll need to listen to our sweet interview with Kent Pegorsch, founder of Waupaca's Dancing Bear Apiary. This is arguably our most educational program yet, because – while we know little about beekeeping, bees, and pollinators in general – we are smart enough to ask good questions.
Oh, and you'll want to hear how Bob Tevis, Mark Gerlach, Chuck Reynolds and Kent answer the Curiouser question of the week, which has to do with irrational fears. Hint, Chuck's answer has to do with where he was once stung...
LISTEN NOW on SoundCloud by clicking the link below.
Or, LISTEN MONDAY at 6 p.m. on WAUP 99.1 FM or Waupaca Radio FM 96.3, or if you prefer to stream go to live365.com and enter WAUP in the search bar.
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Interview with Kent Pegorsch, Founder and President of Dancing Bear Apiary. First broadcast on April 20, 2024.

10/27/2023

The girls(and a few boys that the girls haven't shoved out before winter) are all gathered and we will be loading two semis today to head West. They are very healthy and I will see them in California in January.

10/23/2023

Busy gathering our girls up from our 18 locations around the Waupaca area. Getting them all together so we can load them onto semis to send them to the bee spa in Idaho. There they will rest in complete darkness at 38° for two and a half  months before the trip down to California for the almond pollination