Queenright in the smoke: Late summer gambling, part 2
m Success! All four of the sections of my mating box contain laying queens! The sun was so obscured by smoke today that seeing eggs was practically impossible. Thanks to […]
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Late summer gambling
It’s been a good season so far. With good foraging conditions and some timely splitting, I’ve made enough splits to compensate for some unprecedented winter losses. Increasing from survivor colonies […]
What’s Blooming? August 10, 2017
August is the true test season for my pollinator-minded garden. The blackberry blooms that helped fill hives in June are now fat, sweet berries, beginning to fill our bellies and […]
The good swarm
I discovered an unexpected benefit to negligence when a very large swarm found some of my equipment sitting around unoccupied. The hive bodies stacked in my yard awaiting a fresh […]
What did you do in the bee yard today? April 17, 2017
The last three years’ early, unseasonably warm springs have given way to our more “normal” rainy weather this year. I’ve hesitated to interrupt the couple of good foraging days we’ve […]
Flying at last!
Yesterday’s mild temperatures saw the first bee flights in my valley for many days. I also saw my first bumblebee queens of the year–two separate species right on this colony’s […]
Winter “shoulda”s
After a tumultuous fall and winter left me with less time for beekeeping (and blogging) than I would have preferred, by mid-January, I was finally beginning to see light at […]
