Beelightful Bee Company

10/11/2026

10/10/2026

How long does it take to get comfortable picking out and picking up queen bees?

10/09/2026

Nothing wrong with showing deep admiration for someone as cool as Hillary Hilary Kearney. It’s amazing to know someone from social media for so long, to buy and use her bee products, and then actually meet and hug! I learned new and helpful tidbits seeing her in person. Big shout out to Palm Beach County Beekeepers Palm Beach Beekeeping Assoc. for bringing Hillary from San Diego to SoFlo. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.

10/01/2026

Could be cozy and intimate? Bees are so used to being constantly surrounded and touched by their hivemates. It must be absolutely amazing the first time they fly away from the nest. It’s the first time they use their wings to fly, the first time they experience the big, wide world, and the first time they act as solo beings. Of course every action they take is for the collective so “hive mind” is always with them from pre-hatching to end of life. Amazing creatures.

09/30/2026

☺️My new handyman Jaime came yesterday and made seven holes in the wall for seven hives. This is an amazing project for me in Miami as I’m making my honey house into a Bee Immersive Experience! More updates and details to come but just know I’m working hard and absolutely buzzing with the excitement of it all 🐝🤺🐝🤺🐝🤺🐝

09/29/2026

THIS QUEEN IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE! 😳If you are a newer beekeeper don’t feel bad if you can’t find her. It definitely helps to mark her with a dot of color. This one is fast, hides, is smaller and is dark with stripes, so it’s hard to see her 😣. If you see upright eggs that’s enough to know she’s fine and she’s there somewhere 😘🐝. Everything is practice, patience and repetition in learning the fine art of beekeeping and queen handling so try that 🤪 oh! And BTW if you are in south florida this weekend Hillary Kearny of Hilary Kearney is a speaker and workshop presenter in Palm Beach Palm Beach County Beekeepers. If you don’t follow Hillary you should. She’s the author of the book Queenspotting and her one woman bee business in San Diego kicks butt on quality, innovation, creativity and success. Yes, I’m a fan-girl for years! 😘😘😘

09/28/2026

I am not paid for this promo, so it comes straight from experience. I met Jenna Jeometry Beewear | Women’s Beekeeping Suits last year at Apimondia in Denmark and I had already pre-ordered her suit! She’s amazing and I love supporting her efforts to make a superior bee suit designed for women. I have extreme heat and humidity to beekeep in six months of the year in Miami and this is my solution. It’s the best available bee suit in my opinion. For a discount use MEL10, which is a 20% off right now.

09/28/2026

Another bee removal successfully accomplished last evening. I don’t know about you but a Saturday night spent removing bees is one well spent to me. I got home tired and happy. And today when I checked them I did get the queen. Yayyyy!

09/26/2026

These bees are from a rescue nearby and now in the good hands of Stefano, daddy bee with his new yellow Primal Bee. He’s learning so much in how to read the combs and find the queen on his own. It’s not easy and takes practice and time, but with a great attitude of love and not fear or intimidation, bees quickly become so fascinating and friendly. I’m proud of Stefano. He’s only a beekeeper since May!

09/25/2026

I got up there thinking I could take this massive fresh beehive out of the attic which means sliding myself back and forth across the ceiling beams, rolling in insulation, squeezing myself and equipment into the corner, using a bee vacuum awkwardly while bearing some unholy heat, and pulling them out comb by comb. I decided against it, went outside to their entrance hole, climbed a very tall ladder, and set up a funnel for a trap out. Sometimes it’s ok to just force a good old do-over for bees. They do it themselves every time they abscond or swarm so it’s not radical for them to adjust quickly. Homeowners don’t want to break open their roofs which is totally understandable. This is a option I’ve done over 40 times over the years and it works.