For me, preparing hives for winter means putting insulation on the top, wrapping the hives with a relatively modest insulation, and adding mouse guards to the entrances. The mouse guards are needed because, believe it or not, mice love to cohabitate with bees during the winter. They seem willing to risk the possibility of being …
Monthly Archives: December 2023
Sad goodbye
For most of my life I have had cats and right up to the age of 50, I would have told you I was a cat person, through and through. My husband, Gary, is definitively a dog person, but for years declined to adopt a dog because we were both working long hours and he …
A $600 jar of honey
I am the editor for the Michigan Beekeepers Association‘s (MBA) quarterly newsletter, and I wrote this story for my “Editor’s Musing” section of the newsletter that came out in November. At the moment it was happening, it didn’t seem amusing at all, but after the fact, it makes for an interesting story, so thought I …