NY Beekeeper
@nybeekeeper.bsky.social
Hi 👋 I’m Arden | Disabled Combat Vet | Small Business Owner | North Country Beekeeper | Beeswax Studio | Husband to @ecoverdant.bsky.social | Non-Breeder | Nature Lover 🐝🦝💚 | Defund 🇺🇸 Oligarchy | ✊ Resist
Visit shop ➡️ www.bmdooney.com
Visit shop ➡️ www.bmdooney.com
The beeswax studio is ready for the holidays. Are you? Stop by to find handmade gifts to place under the tree or extra stocking stuffers. 🐝🎁
Saturdays 10a-4p
Saturdays 10a-4p
November 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The beeswax studio is ready for the holidays. Are you? Stop by to find handmade gifts to place under the tree or extra stocking stuffers. 🐝🎁
Saturdays 10a-4p
Saturdays 10a-4p
Yesterday was the final day of winter preparations for our bees. This year I decided to try something different than what I’ve done in past winters. Normally I would set the bees up with a vented hive and quilt box. This year I’m doing a condensing hive. Here’s how I set them up.
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Yesterday was the final day of winter preparations for our bees. This year I decided to try something different than what I’ve done in past winters. Normally I would set the bees up with a vented hive and quilt box. This year I’m doing a condensing hive. Here’s how I set them up.
Using Pysanky to decorate Brown Bag Cookie molds.
September 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Using Pysanky to decorate Brown Bag Cookie molds.
It’s harvest day! 🐝🍯
August 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It’s harvest day! 🐝🍯
It’s a finger swarm! 👑🐝
July 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s a finger swarm! 👑🐝
Here’s a look at our 2025 honeybee progress. The colonies are growing fast and honey harvest is only a few weeks away. Stay tuned for something sweet from the North Country!🍯
July 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Here’s a look at our 2025 honeybee progress. The colonies are growing fast and honey harvest is only a few weeks away. Stay tuned for something sweet from the North Country!🍯
Got this sweet little thank you card in the mail today from the Canton Central Green Team. The kids even included some self-made seed packets. Too cute! 🥰
July 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Got this sweet little thank you card in the mail today from the Canton Central Green Team. The kids even included some self-made seed packets. Too cute! 🥰
It’s a scorcher here in the North Country today @ 89F. Here is one of this year’s honey producers with a small beard hanging off of the front porch. Bearding is one way that bees prevent the hive from getting too hot on days like today.🥵 🐝
June 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It’s a scorcher here in the North Country today @ 89F. Here is one of this year’s honey producers with a small beard hanging off of the front porch. Bearding is one way that bees prevent the hive from getting too hot on days like today.🥵 🐝
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Musk’s Direct-to-Cell constellation and the U.S. election.
Background: This began in 2022 as “digging,” when Musk launched his bid to purchase Twitter at $20B over value, just 49 days after Putin invaded Ukraine.
A convo re NATO considering Article 5 over Cyber attacks prompted the original post.
Background: This began in 2022 as “digging,” when Musk launched his bid to purchase Twitter at $20B over value, just 49 days after Putin invaded Ukraine.
A convo re NATO considering Article 5 over Cyber attacks prompted the original post.
January 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Musk’s Direct-to-Cell constellation and the U.S. election.
Background: This began in 2022 as “digging,” when Musk launched his bid to purchase Twitter at $20B over value, just 49 days after Putin invaded Ukraine.
A convo re NATO considering Article 5 over Cyber attacks prompted the original post.
Background: This began in 2022 as “digging,” when Musk launched his bid to purchase Twitter at $20B over value, just 49 days after Putin invaded Ukraine.
A convo re NATO considering Article 5 over Cyber attacks prompted the original post.
I made some white beeswax lanterns this week. They sure do make the studio glow at night. 🐝🕯️
May 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I made some white beeswax lanterns this week. They sure do make the studio glow at night. 🐝🕯️
The queen mating yard is setup and ready for the 🐝 orgy to commence. Each small box is a nucleus (nuc) colony that is busy raising new queens. Once the queens hatch it will be time for mating flights. If all goes well, each nuc will have a newly mated queen by the first week of June.
May 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The queen mating yard is setup and ready for the 🐝 orgy to commence. Each small box is a nucleus (nuc) colony that is busy raising new queens. Once the queens hatch it will be time for mating flights. If all goes well, each nuc will have a newly mated queen by the first week of June.
My house is buzzing 🐝🐝🐝
Yesterday, I made this year’s spring nucs. These bees will be locked up for 3 days. After that they will go to the queen mating yard.
Yesterday, I made this year’s spring nucs. These bees will be locked up for 3 days. After that they will go to the queen mating yard.
May 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My house is buzzing 🐝🐝🐝
Yesterday, I made this year’s spring nucs. These bees will be locked up for 3 days. After that they will go to the queen mating yard.
Yesterday, I made this year’s spring nucs. These bees will be locked up for 3 days. After that they will go to the queen mating yard.
Wow, today was a full day of North Country beekeeping. It all started @ 6:30a with a text about a hive damaged by a bear 🧸. Then @ 10:30a off to @sln_grow to unwrap the hives and inspect. Everything looks good btw👌. Finally @ 2p, unwrapping and inspecting @wisersuny bees with this summer’s interns.
April 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Wow, today was a full day of North Country beekeeping. It all started @ 6:30a with a text about a hive damaged by a bear 🧸. Then @ 10:30a off to @sln_grow to unwrap the hives and inspect. Everything looks good btw👌. Finally @ 2p, unwrapping and inspecting @wisersuny bees with this summer’s interns.
April 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It feels good to see the bees flying, especially after such a long North Country winter.
March 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It feels good to see the bees flying, especially after such a long North Country winter.
It’s becoming clear to me that the quality of bee food 🌻🌸🌺 is declining. Causing the bees to be unfit for surviving overwintering conditions. Global CO2, 433ppm and climbing.
Your 'moment of doom' for March 30, 2025 ~ The end of bees.
"The data is showing us this is the worst bee loss in recorded history"
www.cbsnews.com/news/bee-dea...
"The data is showing us this is the worst bee loss in recorded history"
www.cbsnews.com/news/bee-dea...
Millions of bees have died this year. It's "the worst bee loss in recorded history," one beekeeper says
Bees play a key role in the U.S. food supply, and the mass deaths could jeopardize that.
www.cbsnews.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
It’s becoming clear to me that the quality of bee food 🌻🌸🌺 is declining. Causing the bees to be unfit for surviving overwintering conditions. Global CO2, 433ppm and climbing.
From 1860-2000 global CO2 levels 287-370ppm. Same time goldenrod pollen protein content ⬇️ 1/3. Todays CO2 is 433 ppm. At that rate, todays g’rod protein has ⬇️another 26%. Making g’rod pollen about 60% less nutritious for 🐝 today than pre American Industrial Revolution.
www.purdue.edu/newsroom/arc...
www.purdue.edu/newsroom/arc...
Rising CO2 levels reduce protein in crucial pollen source for bees - News - Purdue University
Rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have reduced protein in goldenrod pollen, a key late-season food source for North American bees, a Purdue University study shows.
www.purdue.edu
March 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
From 1860-2000 global CO2 levels 287-370ppm. Same time goldenrod pollen protein content ⬇️ 1/3. Todays CO2 is 433 ppm. At that rate, todays g’rod protein has ⬇️another 26%. Making g’rod pollen about 60% less nutritious for 🐝 today than pre American Industrial Revolution.
www.purdue.edu/newsroom/arc...
www.purdue.edu/newsroom/arc...
First flowers of the year at the home apiary! The bees are battling wind and rain today, but they’re not gonna miss out on these blooming Crocus flowers.
March 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
First flowers of the year at the home apiary! The bees are battling wind and rain today, but they’re not gonna miss out on these blooming Crocus flowers.
With the temperature around 55F the bees are all over the snow today. ❄️🐝
March 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
With the temperature around 55F the bees are all over the snow today. ❄️🐝
The bees are emerging from a long winter here in the #NorthCountry.
March 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The bees are emerging from a long winter here in the #NorthCountry.
❤️ ADK
Now with sound 📻❤️❄️A snowshoe trek in the Adirondack Mountains on a classic winter day www.npr.org/2025/02/25/n...
A snowshoe trek in the Adirondack Mountains on a classic winter day
Snowshoeing in the Adirondacks on a winter day with chickadees for company
www.npr.org
March 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
❤️ ADK
In response to J.D. Vance’s visit to VT, I have to wonder…
Would you sell your goods & services to the oligarchs and far-right figures that are reshaping our country?
Not that it’s likely to happen to me, but if it did I would say, “Fake politicians deserve fake honey. Go to the grocery store!”
Would you sell your goods & services to the oligarchs and far-right figures that are reshaping our country?
Not that it’s likely to happen to me, but if it did I would say, “Fake politicians deserve fake honey. Go to the grocery store!”
March 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In response to J.D. Vance’s visit to VT, I have to wonder…
Would you sell your goods & services to the oligarchs and far-right figures that are reshaping our country?
Not that it’s likely to happen to me, but if it did I would say, “Fake politicians deserve fake honey. Go to the grocery store!”
Would you sell your goods & services to the oligarchs and far-right figures that are reshaping our country?
Not that it’s likely to happen to me, but if it did I would say, “Fake politicians deserve fake honey. Go to the grocery store!”
I ❤️ my neighbors in VT!
March 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I ❤️ my neighbors in VT!
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Zelenskyy knows what it is to fight for something bigger than yourself. Trump does not.
March 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Zelenskyy knows what it is to fight for something bigger than yourself. Trump does not.
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Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊
February 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊