Urban Bee LLC

12/16/2019

Bees are actually incredibly calming!

An Arizona man’s emotional support animal is creating quite a buzz. Prescott Valley, Ariz., resident David Keller thinks the application process to register an emotional support animal is too…

11/04/2019

‪Can’t believe it’s that time again! Wrapping the hives for winter. 🥶

10/14/2019

It was great visiting Parmenter's Northville Cider Mill over the weekend! Thank you for supporting the bees 🐝 and for the yummy cider and donuts!

10/13/2019

What an amazing piece of art courtesy of Nick, a student at Rising Stars Academy. Nick was part of an Urban Bee LLC lecture in September on biodynamic beekeeping. We love seeing how talented our clients are and seeing how excited they get about our pollinators! Thanks, Nick, for your dedication to our pollinators and keep up the great artwork!

10/02/2019

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10/01/2019

CLIMAX, Mich. -- The pesticide to be sprayed across West Michigan Sunday night will hopefully kill mosquitoes that have been spreading the EEE virus. But it could also cause some unintended deaths in insects very important to our food supply. The state says honeybees will most likely be in their hiv...

09/22/2019

What an amazing past couple of days it has been! Got to experience two Urban Bee LLC clients in their element.

Thoroughly enjoyed seeing Ann Delisi host the phenomenal concert for Mike Ellison and The War and Treaty!! Sorry to Mike... the performance was so refreshing, innovative, and demanding that we literally forgot to take photo documentation! So much fun seeing the energy of these artists right here in Detroit.

Also, finally made it in to Mabel Gray Kitchen. Food so good you’ll start to question reality itself! If you haven’t stopped by yet, what are you waiting for?! Shout out to the entire team for doing amazing work!

09/16/2019

‪A familiar face hanging out at the Rising Stars Academy hives. Isn’t she gorgeous??‬

09/08/2019

When the mammoth sunflower begins to droop and her seeds begin to ripen, you know the season is coming to a close. Like the Golden Rod, this is a sign of the change in seasons. While the dried and dead foliage may look depressing and unappealing to the eye, we find it beautiful. It represents a summer full of hard work, which perpetuates the circle of life for all creatures. Only 15 days left to summer... How will you be enjoying the last days of warmth before the seasons change?

09/02/2019

Nothing I’d rather smell like than a bee’s butt. Happy Labor Day y’all!

08/27/2019

Well it’s that time of the year, folks! As the summer begins to slip into Autumn and the nights and days begin to cool, fall can certainly be felt in the air. The bees know this and have been preparing all summer for this…. Winter is coming. In the winter, the bees cluster into a tight mass, keeping each other warm, with the queen in the center. The outer most bees in the cluster pull honey from the comb and pass along the nourishment to the center of the cluster, like a game of telephone. There’s one problem, though… Drone (boy) bees are unable to feed other bees. Because of this fact, if the drones were allowed to stay inside the hive all winter, they would be akin to a blood clot in the body… the honey distribution would stop at them and the center of the colony would starve. Consequently, they’re kicked out in the fall and these yellow jackets get an all you can eat buffet of drones.

08/18/2019

On August 3rd, I met with one of TWO Certified Spikenard Biodynamic Beekeeping Mentors in the entire United Stated; Eileen Dickinson. I helped Eileen with her hives and learned so much. Today, she wanted to tag along for some Urban Bee LLC inspections. What an experience!

PHOTOS: We checked on Joya and Journey at the Ann Delisi residence. Joya swarmed in early July. During the last inspection, Joya was eerily bare and acting naughty; she appeared queenless. Today’s check was to see if the additional week and half would show any signs of a laying queen. Today, we found what we were looking for, a beautiful TRUE queen, not even a month old.

We stopped by Mabel Gray and Patience’s house as well, only to find more colonies heading into Fall 2019 STRONG (Mabel and Sasha, respectively).

It was a beautiful day to inspect many hives on National Honeybee Day, all with a great teacher.