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A Joyous New Year!

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  Bill's Bees wishes you a Joyous New Year! We thank all our loyal customers for your continued support, we wish our fellow beekeepers happy, healthy, productive bees, and we thank the bees for the abundance of honey, honey bee products and the joys and adventures of beekeeping. Happy New Year! ~Bill Lewis Wishing You A Joyous New Year!Historical Honeybee Articles - Beekeeping HistoryImage: Bee Chasing Children -Trading Card from Partridges Cafe, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 15 North 3rd Street and 19 South 8th Street(estimate circa. 1880 to 1900) Over a century ago, during the Victorian era, one of the favorite pastimes...

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What Do You Give A Beekeeper?

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BEES! Beekeepers Love Bees!! Lots of Bees!!! Bill's Bees sells Italian honey bees with known gentle genetics.These bees are ideal for backyard beekeeping in Los Angeles as well as for commercial beekeepers who take their bees to pollination.  ORDER NOW! For April 2019 Delivery. Don't bee beeless come bee Season! The Complete Hive (Medium Box) Special is the best choice and best value for backyard beekeepers. Complete Hive (Medium Box) Special ($250): Bill's Bees used commercial grade hive top, bottom board, and medium (6-5/8”) hive body containing: 6 frame Nucleus colony (4 frames brood in all stages, 2 frames with honey and pollen) and 4 additional undrawn...

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Buzz By Bill's Bees Honey Table at McGroarty Arts Center Chili Bowl Fest & Art & Craft Faire

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Buzz by Bill's Bees Honey Table at McGroarty Arts Center 16th Annual Chili Bowl Fest and Art & Crafts Faire, Saturday & Sunday, Dec. 1st & 2nd, 2018. Liane Lewis will have our honey table overflowing with beautiful holiday gifts from Bill’s Bees honey bees.    100% Raw Honey - Just the way the bees made it!You'll love our home made beeswax soaps and lotions hand crafted by Liane. Our magical beeswax ornaments and beautiful slow burning beeswax candles are a holiday treasure.  Lots of delightful, flavorful HoneyStix!  https://billsbees.com

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All the Buzz About Bees - Talking Points Featuring Bill Lewis of Bill's Bees

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 Bill Lewis, President/Owner of Bill’s Bees and former president of the California State Beekeepers Association, shares some of his experiences with bees over the last 30-some years. "It's not something everybody does." ~Bill Lewis In this fascinating overview, Bill talks about honey bee activity, hive behavior, bee colony collapse, habitat loss, crop pollination, and honey production.  Take a peek at the amazing life that goes on inside a beehive: how bees communicate, get along inside a hive, and who makes the decisions. Learn how bees collect nectar and pollen and bring it back to the hive to make honey, how honey is harvested and preserved. ...

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Happy Halloween!

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Trick or Treat with a Healthy, Happy, Tasty, Treat Kids Love To Eat! HoneyStix! from Bill's Bees!. Bill’s Bees HoneyStix are convenient straws filled with pure honey. We offer Floral Honey Varieties, HoneyStix Natural Flavored Varieties, and HoneyStix Gourmet Flavored, over 20 different varieties to choose from. HoneyStix are the best sweet, healthy, tasty treat! They’re great for snacks or a quick energy pick-me-up! Pack them in your kid’s lunch, pop them in your backpack, keep a package in your car, or your drawer at work. Bill ran a marathon with a fist full of HoneyStix - 1 stick evey 2 miles. Honey is an...

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