HONEY BEE or YELLOWJACKET WASP? Wasps, an insect, are protein eaters typically of other insects like soft bodies caterpillars and spiders. They are beneficial predators as they clean our environment of dead bodies. The appear as skinny and shiny with no noticeable hairs on their bodies. They are carnivores, which we normally witness as […]

Yesterday, while installing a Package, a beekeeper in Portland felt certain a Small Hive Beetle, SHB, accompanied the mix. Our honey bees have been devastated by the Varroa Mite over the past years, but with the emergence of the small hive beetle we enter into a new era of concern and control. It has slowly […]

Bear Cub in our front yard Bears are great creatures, but just not compatible with honeybees. They have a great sense of smell, so the honey your bees spend their life collecting become a quest for the wandering, weary, hungry animal. Bear playing in wading pool As good as honey sounds, it does not compare […]