The Third Opinion

A lot of consideration in bee books is given to the questions of “what bee should be used” in your apiary. This often confuses many people that are starting in bee-craft. And there is no graceful way to answer this question without attaching a sales pitch to it, something that will inherently make me should… Read more

For me the keeping of bees is one of many hobbies. My royal standard English dictionary (1813) and my Merriam-Webster (2022) defines the word hobby as what we passionately like and a pursuit or interest engaged in for relaxation, respectively. When I think of about the hobby, I think about the end of the scout-oath… Read more

I has been almost a year where the project I start with this article has existed only in my head. It started with obsession with the dictionary, something I have a small collection of. Dictionaries both physical and in pdf form, ranging from the year 1722 to 2022, and use them to sort out my… Read more

The Smoker is the number one tool needed my all bee-keepers. A basic crowbar or a knife can replace a hive tool to break apart the bee-hives. But nothing can replace smoke. To understand why you have to understand how honey bees communicate. You may have heard of the waggle dance; this is a demonstration… Read more

What am I a bee-keeper or beekeeper; Is the hobby called bee-keeping or beekeeping? The latter is “modern” spelling and want what is commonly used and most of my readers would have never even seen the use of the hyphenated bee-keeper until my last post. I am trying to develop the habit of not relaying… Read more