Moving Day, August 5, 2016
As I finally made my rounds after my month of travel, I discovered the colony at this out-yard was a dead-out. After a month, it’s a little difficult to say […]
Category Archives: Equipment
What not to do with a nuc…
I set this nuc up around mid-June and then took off on a month of travels and workshops. The high temperatures we’ve had for the last few days would easily […]
Rainy evening
While I have managed to get my mouse guards on my hives, work and a dearth of daylight hours have left me less time than I’d like to get the […]
What did you do in the bee yard today? August 9, 2015
It’s the season to streamline my bee yard. This colony failed to requeen itself after a split, so I combined it with a queenright nuc made from a spring split. […]
Fed up with toothpicks
June saw me part ways with toothpicks. I had spent the month of May dutifully inserting toothpicks between the hive bodies of my colonies to give them extra air flow […]
Caged
<im. Swarm control takes quite a bit of this beekeeper’s mental energy in the spring. This season the whole idea of “swarm control” seemed particularly oxymoronic as there were at […]
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