For the past several years, the scheduled delivery of packages of bees has always been late a week or two from the Southern states of Florida, Alabama, and Georgia. Experienced beekeepers are used to ...

Once again, package bees and queen availability has been an issue for new and established beekeepers. A prolonged cold snap in the Southeast and long periods of cool, rainy weather in California ...

A few weeks ago, I received an email from a regular reader. Charles Schafer and his wife, Sally, offered my family a chance to install new bees into hives on their property: “I have 3 pkgs. of ...

The Sunshine State’s warm winter temperatures keep the bees active, allowing them to continue to forage. So-called “migratory beekeepers” rely on this three-month sojourn to build up their colonies’ ...