The beekeeper’s trash pile

The swarm

I’m not proud of it but, since misery loves some company, I hope some of you have a bee equipment trash pile too. A pile of trashed bee equipment seems to go hand in hand with a long-time beekeeper. The longer one keeps bees, the larger the pile. You know the look … weeds growing around old, once-loved equipment — equipment that could, in a desperate moment, be restored to a degree of functionality but probably never will be. It’s too much effort and new equipment is cost-competitive. So, this equipment sits around waiting for a day that will most likely never come.