Queen Bees – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:35:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Queen Bees – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 The Seasonal Bumblebee https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-seasonal-bumblebee-zbwz1711zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-seasonal-bumblebee-zbwz1711zsau/#comments Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:28:46 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3714 It’s the end of November in Michigan, we’ve already had several snow falls, the temperature today is 29 degrees outside, and I just killed a mosquito in our bathroom. It always amazes me how resilient insects are. In the winter, I often look across our field covered in white drifts of snow, sometimes several feet […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-seasonal-bumblebee-zbwz1711zsau/feed/ 3 Queen Rearing: A Beekeeper’s Primer https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/queen-rearing-beekeepers-primer/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/queen-rearing-beekeepers-primer/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:52:22 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com.php53-3.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com/?p=153 The crux of a honeybee colony's operation, learn more about the queen's role and caring for your "royalty".

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