2025 · June 28, 2025
The garden beekeeper thinks that his honey label is a bit outdated and that a new design should be developed. He still thinks the depicted bee is beautiful, but suspects that this image evokes rather negative emotions in many people... (“Yuck, a disgusting insect!”) A meadow of flowers would probably be a more “marketable” image.
2025 · June 26, 2025
The spring flower honey and rapeseed honey harvested on May 25th is in the jar. Harvesting, extracting, cleaning the kitchen and bottling is sometimes a bit exhausting, but at the same time relaxing. Beekeeping is the new yoga.
2025 · June 15, 2025
Yesterday a swarm of bees escaped from the garden beekeeper. It is now hanging out of reach in a tree in the neighbor's garden. He should have read this Conny booklet.
2025 · June 05, 2025
On May 30 retrieved a large swarm of bees from an apple tree. Sprayed the bees with a little water to make it more difficult for them to fly up. Then gave the swarm a good shove into a plastic box and placed it in an empty hive. This process was repeated several times and the box was then left for a few hours with the entrance hole open until almost all the bees had found their way in. Finally, transported the box to the new location and after two days, and inserted some wax plates as a...
2025 · May 29, 2025
The honey from 4 bee colonies each in the Heilbronn garden and in the rape field near Weinsberg was harvested on Father's Day and is now in the buckets. The garden beekeeper is very happy with the yield 😎 The bees were not offended that their honey had been stolen. However, they were in a frenzy when they realized that there were honeycombs outside the hive for a short time...
2025 · May 12, 2025
Most of the phone calls about a swarm of bees to be removed are actually concerning wasps. It's kind of sad that many people nowadays can no longer tell the difference between bees and wasps. So be it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The call yesterday came punctually after work: a swarm of bees in a parking lot in Neckarsulm, at a comfortable picking height.
2025 · May 03, 2025
Working hard and making the beekeeper happy: The two hive scales show gains of between 3 and 4 kilos per day.
2025 · March 06, 2025
Bees carry in the first pollen. A fascinating spectacle, captured in slow motion. A human glider pilot student must first learn to fly with great effort. Bees can do it just like that.
2025 · January 06, 2025
Alongside honey, wax is a precious product of honey bees. Wax from untreated, young honeycombs has a golden-yellow color and smells of pollen and nectar. Following their natural building instinct, bees produce wax during the season, which they “sweat” out of their wax glands in small transparent plates to build honeycombs. Over the course of the year, honeycombs accumulate that the bees no longer need. We carefully remove them from our bee colonies, melt them down with solar energy, clarify...