Author: Anita Deeley

Inspecting Commercial Bees on Cranberries

Inspecting Commercial Bees on Cranberries I can make the big announcement because now it’s official!  I have been hired by the state of Massachusetts to be the Bee Inspector for Essex County.   This job will be fascinating as I get to see honey bees in all types of situations, […]

Honey from Beverly Bees

Honey! Honey! Honey!

We Have Honey! Our honey is treatment free which is hard to find locally. Treatment free honey means that treatments are not used inside the hive. No pesticides, chemicals, essential oils or antibiotics are used inside the hive at any time. All of our honey is Pure, Raw, Unheated, Unfiltered […]

Honey Bee Swarm Removal Service

Honey Bee Swarm Removal Service Swarm season has begun!  If you are located in Beverly or any of the nearby towns in Essex County, MA, you qualify for our free Bee Swarm Removal Service. We will take your unwanted bees and relocate them through our Host a Hive and Adopt […]

We Have A New Host Provider

We Have A New Host Provider! I am so grateful to you and all my regular visitors! In fact, due to the popularity of this website with readers, I had to move to a new type of web hosting provider.  So things have been quiet around here lately, but I […]

Pollen cells filled with eggs from laying worker bees.

Laying Workers In Package Bees?

Laying Workers in Package Bees? Yes, it happened. But it shouldn’t. Upon inspecting one of my newly installed packages last week to check for eggs,  I came across this lovely sight – not one, not two, but multiple eggs per cell. Some cells had only a few eggs and some […]

Dee Lusby Bee Yard

Dee Lusby Organic Beekeeper

Dee Lusby Organic Beekeeper Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the Organic Beekeeping Conference in Oracle, Arizona. This event is put together every year by Dee Lusby, the queen of Organic and Treatment Free Beekeeping.  Dee Lusby is a commercial beekeeper with over 700 hives in southern Arizona, the […]