(Photographs copyright 2014 by Dan Routh)
Category: Bees
Looking For Queens
Bumble Bee and Clover
Queen Bees
Cousins Jerry and Amos Routh propagate queen bees at Bee Ready Bees in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. Visit their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/BeeReadyBees. Jerry and Amos host an open house/field day on the last Saturday of each month where they demonstrate bee-keeping techniques.
(Photographs copyright 2014 by Dan Routh)
Bee Keeping Gear
A Week After The Snow
Bee on Thistle
Working a Garlic Head
Bee Swarm
I came home last week and found one of my son’s bee hives had swarmed in our orchard. Luckily my cousin down the road, Jerry Routh specializes in handling such things. He was able to lure the swarm, which is basically half the original hive, into a new hive where the bees and their queen can start a batch of bees. He also had enough queen cells in the old hive to split and create a total of four new hives from it. Jerry’s business is Bee Ready Bee’s. He sells queens and honey and his facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/BeeReadyBees?fref=ts.
(Photographs copyright 2013 by Dan Routh)
Raising Queens
Jerry and Amos Routh work their bee hives near my home in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. They were checking hive strength and marking queens. Jerry raises queen bees for his business Be Ready Bees. His Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/BeeReadyBees.
(Photographs copyright 2013 by Dan Routh)





































