Author Archives: ljwestover

Here is the next update of my bee sting desensitization experiment. The more I think about it, the more I realize that there are probably too many variables for me to really draw many general conclusions from my experience trying … Continue reading →

Today was my “biggest day” so far. Last week I took a sting on Wednesday and a sting on Saturday, and this week I took a sting on Monday (two days ago) and today I took 3 stings. Today’s stings … Continue reading →

Here is the question: If you take several stings over a short period of time, will it desensitize your body to bee stings? Apparently many people say it does and many people do it, but I have never done it … Continue reading →

I will be going to visit and work with a commercial beekeeper in about a month for hands-on working and training on how to successfully keep bees alive and manage them without any chemical or unnatural additions to the hives … Continue reading →

Checking on the roof this morning I saw one lone single solitary honey bee that looked like it was lost and could not find the hive that I moved last Friday night. That was good news. We are still in … Continue reading →

Last Saturday I removed the small hive box (third box) from the top of the hive with which I had combined it. I brushed all the bees off into the top box of the two-story hive after moving two frames … Continue reading →

This past week I recombined the two hives that I split previously. I had split them because they looked to me as though they were getting ready to swarm and had made queen cells. I split them so they would … Continue reading →

Today is a somewhat rainy day (light rain) here in Fukuoka. Since it is Saturday and I had time, I visited the western honey bee hives at Teruo Shiki’s house. Teruo san was picking ume (Japanese plums used to make … Continue reading →

What good is knowledge if you don’t apply it? Since I’ve learned more about how to attract honey bee swarms using bait hives and swarm lures, I decided to try it while there might still be some swarms coming out. … Continue reading →

Yesterday I visited a western honey bee hive on the Hakozaki Campus that is being kept by a female Taiwanese graduate student and she happened to ride up on her bicycle at the same time I arrived, so I was … Continue reading →