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Do you mean as in hurt them from chemicals? Either way i believe it would be fine. They go to store bought plants at the stores and after people plant them. Also, only a small percentage of your...

Its possible that the swarms are taking off, but the queen isn't getting the memo and isn't leaving the hive. I have heard of this happening. False swarms because the queen wont or can't leave. The...

Camponotus sp. Possibly Camponotus americanus. They are carpenter ants. Generally the bigger ants are less of a problem once the hive gets established. The bees can actually fight the big ants and...

No queen in her right mind would stay out overnight. As was said already, she will go on her flight in late morning to afternoon and be back before evening. She would make a mighty fine meal for a...

I don't know any slideshow you could use, BUT you need to show them the difference between bees and wasps. They and everyone else believes that everything that can sting is a bee. Show them that bees...

"Also called Henbit. A non-native flower. Also could be snowdrops but the pollen is usually a little more orange. Also a non-native plant. What would we do without all these non-native plants?!"
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I work with all sorts of solitary bees and I have mason bees as well. What seems to work for me is putting out reeds from wild plants with hollow stems. I also have many wooden blocks with different...

I heard from some people that say caulk the corners of the box eliminating 90 degree angles. The beetles lodge themselves in those corners and the bees can stop them. When its caulked, the beetles...

I can promise you its not hornets especially up in maryland this time of year. Right now its hibernating queens and maybe far enough south, some queens are just emerging. There are fly parasites...

I did my own feeding station last fall trying to bee line. I marked one yellow bee and one jet black one so i could tell them apart. I started time when they took off from the feeder and left it...

Checkerboarding for swarm management.

I no longer believe the rule that certain aged queens have a lesser tendency to swarm. I was told that bran new queens wouldn't swarm at least until the second year. Well my hive made a supercedure...

Leftover asters, random dandilions and witch hazel. Witch hazel i believe is the big one right now.

Put it in a pot of water and set it to low heat. Make sure the lid is off or partially opened. Over time when the water starts to simmer or boil stir the honey a little and keep doing so til it...

I have the same thing. Spiders are under the hive. I have seen them eat a few bees, BUT I've also found them eating countless wax moths and even wax moth larvae! I also have little spiders that move...

Anise hyssop is covered in bees. Monarda (bee balm), Culvers root, Black cohosh, American Burnett, asters, goldenrod and wild senna. Those are all great bee plants. The wild senna makes seeds for...

That flower is covered in yellow jackets! What kind of flower is that?

Chionodoxa the pink one. Those bloom super early and the bees cover them. Crocus, snowdrop, winter aconite if you can find it.

Earlier this summer i had 50+ in my hive. My solution, going in there and squish every beetle i see. Once my hive got stronger it helped keep them at bay. As for your hive. How many boxes do you have...

They can be very moody. One day they act super nice, the next day they are out to kill you.

The cloud is a dead giveaway for orienting.

Were they that active all the time??? It looks like there is a good amount of orienting taking place. When orienting I've seen lots of bees running up the sides of the hive bodies like in your video....

Yes that is goldenrod. There are many species but this looks to be one of the later blooming ones.

Japanese honeysuckle blooms in spring and has red berries right now. Bumble bees also dont rob nectar. Their tongues are so long, that they can get nectar from every flower they want. What you saw...

The spiders are really helpful to have around. Ive seen them catching wax moths.