Wild Clover Band, Star of the County Down
The Wild Clover Band performs a popular Irish tune, including some lyrics you might not expect. Part of the Wild Irish Thyme program with the ...
The plight of the bees
Last week the winter-loving boy and I spent some time doing yard cleanup, in hopeful anticipation of some ski-worthy snow. We try to get the lawn mowers, rakes and garden implements into the shed before we need to pull out our collection of snow shovels and cross-country skis.
We couldn’t help noticing the old beehives by the shed are listing to one side and showing signs of dry rot.
They’ve been empty a long time.
When my husband first moved up north from Florida, he brought his expertise as a beekeeper with him. Happy to leave his Southern worries about Africanized bees behind, he quickly set up bee yards in farm fields in the region, fencing off small corners of borrowed fields for a handful of honeybee hives and paying the farmers rent every fall with 5-pound jars of honey.
Back then it was hard to keep up with the growing hives, which needed to be divided when they got too crowded. We’d move frames of honeycomb filled with new larva and covered with worker bees from one hive to put into a new one, with a new queen we bought from a beekeeper who raised hardy stock. The new hive would have to be moved at least two miles away, to another field, or the bees would return to their old hive.
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