This past Saturday I installed packaged bees into the existing equipment of my recently deceased hives in the Runamuk apiary.…
March is always a dirty month. As the snow melts all of winters dirty secrets are revealed. The snow banks…
It's that time of year when beekeepers are ramping up winter preparations for their beehives. We're inspecting hives for colony…
For years now Mike Palmer of French Hill Apiaries in St. Albans, Vermont, has been working to convince beekeepers that…
Carol Cottrill is a former president of the Maine State Beekeepers' Association and has held a number of other positions…
Every year at the annual meeting of the Maine State Beekeepers' Association our state apiarist, Anthony (Tony) Jadczak talks about…
Studying under Professor Frank Drummond at the University of Maine, Brianne Du Clos is a PhD candidate studying how bees…
Megan Leech is a masters' student studying native bees under Frank Drummond at the University of Maine. She's looking to…
You may or may not recall that back in November I made my annual pilgrimage to the 2015 meeting of…
According to Mike Palmer of French Hill Apiaries in St. Albans Vermont, success in the apiary is dependent upon two…