Sticky Fingers Bees

05/05/2024

New tiny-batch handmades for you! Save 20% right now with code QUEENBEE. https://stickyfingersbees.com/

12/07/2023

Yesterday's project: Handmade honey & coconut oil glycerin soaps, with mica and essential oils. Six of each, now in the store. Stocking stuffers!

Oregon pine essential oil ~ Olive
Lavender essential oil ~ Lilac
Rose essential oil ~ Cherry blossom
Tangerine essential oil ~ Tangerine
Lemongrass ~ Gold with painted bee

11/30/2023

Summer 2023 honey harvest. Fall harvest coming soon!

11/19/2023

New batch of Mango Butter Lotion Bars on the way!

11/14/2023

Sticky Fingers Bees is now open! Small, homemade batches of lotion bars and lip balms using high quality, all-natural ingredients, hand-poured from bee-molds. Plus paw balm, beard balm, and board wax. Only bummer is the website doesn't have a scratch-n-sniff feature: everything smells amazing. Ten percent off your first order (code: 1st10%), w/ free US shipping over $75. Thanks for helping support our bee hives!

Sticky Fingers Bees is now taking online orders. Buy today and get 10% off your first purchase with code 1st10%. Thank you!

10/19/2023

Autumn pollen incoming…

07/18/2023

Researchers have found that honey improves key measures of cardiometabolic health, including blood sugar and cholesterol levels -- especially if the honey is raw and from a single floral source.

07/09/2023

The first frame of capped honey for harvest. A good 5-6 lbs of honey stored in those little cells.

07/04/2023

Harvesting and rendering beeswax. Sometimes it’s best not to know how the sausage - or lip balm - is made.

07/03/2023

Yes, please!

A biotechnology startup has developed a revolutionary new treatment for bee disease that could have wide applications for agriculture.

07/01/2023

Baby grapes poppin’ everywhere.

07/01/2023

Nectar flow is on!!! Colonies are booming 🐝🐝🐝And the apiary smells like🍯🍯🍯

06/27/2023

Harvesting beeswax from old frames of comb.

06/02/2023

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06/02/2023

05/30/2023

Happy Hour at Rachel’s Watering Hole

05/28/2023

Our growing menagerie

05/27/2023

A wonderful father-daughter day in the apiary ❤️🐝

05/25/2023

The California lilac blooms have popped and our native Bumbles love the pollen every bit as much as our own girls do.

05/23/2023

Young bees from two of our new colonies conducting orientation flights. Young bees venture out of the hive and conduct these flights to geo-pinpoint the location of their hive using the sun and visual landmarks. The flights begin as very tight figure 8 hovering in front the hive entrance and gradually expand until the bees are ready for their maiden flights. 🐝

Forager (older) bees returning with nectar, pollen or water frequently exhibit a rather similar hover so they can align their landings as close to the entrance as possible and move directly into the hive to deposit their loads. Bees conducting initial orientation flights usually just land randomly where they can on the front of the hive and explore a bit before returning into the hive. 🐝

05/21/2023

Because all of the cool kids are doing it…

05/20/2023

Our first rose of the season!

05/20/2023

Support our pollinators!

05/18/2023

A newly hatched drone (male) out exploring. The colony produces drones in spring and early-mid summer when resources are plenty and the colony is thriving. The drones’ only function is to spread the colonies genetics by mating with other (virgin) queens in the local environment. They have no function inside the hive and even must be fed by worker bees. And they don’t have stingers!

05/17/2023

Spring is finally starting to arrive in our yard. And the girls (bees) are loving it.

05/14/2023

92F in the shade.

05/11/2023

One of our new little queens. The apiary is growing again!