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Beekeeper's Home Pages has been in continuous operation since October 7, 1995.

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About this website...

The Bad Beekeeping: The Beekeeper's Home Pages website is mostly written by Ron Miksha, who lives in a bee hive in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (OK, he doesn't really live in a bee hive - but he once had a lot of beehive furniture in his house - we know, we've seen it ourselves.) Ron's honey bee blog is updated at erratic intervals, with sticky new entries typically pasted in fortnightly.

People have asked - yes, Ron does his own html coding, using a primitive text editor. And yes, photos and art are his own - unless otherwise attributed - or from public domain sources
(eg.. wiki-public commons, dreamstime.com) Opinions expressed herein do not necessarily express anyone's opinions - not even the author's. Please follow this link, if you need more details.

This site covers almost everything about the beehive, bees, and honey. Ron has worked with bees in Pennsylvania, Florida, Wisconsin, Saskatchewan, and Alberta and peeked into hives on three continents. Read our site for honey bee tips and opinions on everything from colony collapse disorder and Africanized honey bees, to queen bees and bee pollen, to building a hive and hiving a swarm... it's all here, so join the colony - explore and enjoy!

Ron has written dozens of bee journal articles and has also penned the book on Bad Beekeeping, which is called "Bad Beekeeping," for obvious reasons. If you are wondering why this blog is sometimes weird and hard to understand, it may be because Ron is also a geophysicist - but has also been a beekeeper for a few dozen years. Ron's family operates Summit Gardens Honey Farms, a western Canada honey bee farm specializing in comb honey. So, this blog might be considered "A Physicist's Guide to Comb Honey Beekeeping Gone Bad".

All comments and opinions are offered without any qualifications, guarantees, or recommendations that any procedures or suggestions offered here will be successful, useful, legal, or safe in your area or with your bee system. This site is largely editorial and sometimes recklessly presented. If you strongly disagree with things you find here, send Ron a note - or keep reading as you are likely to find he also advocates an opposite point of view elsewhere on the website.

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