A friend of us has a property in the center of Portsmouth, NH which has an old barn that is over a hundred years old.  This part of Portsmouth used to be farming land and the city has built up around it.   Old barns are a favorite nesting site for honey bees, especially old ones that still have comb.   The reason being is that scout bees looking for a new home will report back to the swarm cluster that there is comb in the new nesting location and it had been a home to prior colonies. When the hive decides to make it a home they bees fly on over and start to file into the location.  This is when the air will fill with bees as the thousands upon thousands of bees make their way to the new home.  The video below shows the activity of bee moving into their new Portsmouth, New Hampshire home in the Summer of 2017.

If you have a honey bee swarm or honey bees living in your home - call us at 603-682-7898 for a swarm recovery.

We had a great event yesterday where we discussed the challenge of climate change on native pollinators and honey bees at Applecrest Farm in Hampton Falls. New Hampshire. 

The event was set up by The League of Conservation Voters and hosted in the orchard at Applecrest Farm.  As the LCV states in the brochure for the event: 

"Bees are losing their habitat due to climate change-changing temperatures and weather conditions have restricted the areas where bees can survive.  While climate change threatens many species, bees and other pollinators have received special attention because of the important role they play in agriculture and supporting our food supply."

We at SeaBee Honey provided an overview of the different insects responsible for the pollination of the orchards at Applecrest.  We also discussed the challenges faced by our pollinators including early blooms in February that disrupted the peach crop in past seasons,  drought conditions in late summer, and other climate change impacts that have caused issues for our bees and the native pollinators in the region.

​Thank you to everyone that attended the event and took the time to take a look at the honey bees in our observation hive.