How I monitor my beehive survival without leaving the house.

Winter flights can teach us a lot. Here's a strategy for learning about your hive health without a winter opening.

While bees teach us many things about their hives and nature, they also provide many life lessons. Here's is what I'm reflecting on that the bees have taught me.

A look at everything we try to do to help our bees. But are we spoiling them? Are we contributing to their failure?

I'm hearing up to 65% of hives have been lost in North America by October of this year. What are some thoughts and why am I so optimistic for 2025.

My dad fed bees sugar syrup, and I did the same for my first few years of beekeeping. Now, with the new science on how that can harm bees and humans, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's time to stop this practice.

Drones being purged, bees with pollen and much more. I don't really understand this.

It's cold outside and not that warm in the hive so why are these bees fanning? This new strategy to fight mites might be the answer.

We are weeks away from our launch and are opening a wait list for those wishing to use it. At launch it will count bees in pictures or a video you download of up to 15 seconds in length for bees, bees with pollen and drones. It takes a lot of server power to do this, so we need to understand the demand, and it will be on a first-come, first-serve basis. Go to our website, wildflowerbeefarm.com, and click the Join the Waitlist button.

Got on the tractor a bit today and also continuing to work on the AI platform. Some thoughts as we hunker down for winter.