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Category Archives: Queens

Overwintering small colonies: Candy boards

December 31, 2017by kgoodwinus Leave a comment

This fall found me with a number of small colonies ill-prepared for winter.  I had anticipated a deluge of late-season queen requests, requests that, unfortunately for my lovely young queens, […]

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Bee forage, Equipment, Queens, Winter

Queenright in the smoke: Late summer gambling, part 2

September 6, 2017by kgoodwinus Leave a comment

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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Fall, Queens

Late summer gambling

August 28, 2017by kgoodwinus Leave a comment

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 […]

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Equipment, Queens, Summer

The good swarm

July 3, 2017by kgoodwinus Leave a comment

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 […]

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Equipment, Queens, Summer, What's blooming?

What did you do in the bee yard today? April 17, 2017

April 18, 2017by kgoodwinus Leave a comment

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 […]

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Quandries, Queens, Spring, What did you do in the bee yard today?

Fun with Queens

August 8, 2016by kgoodwinus Leave a comment

In the course of making my inspections over the past couple of weeks, I noted that my largest, strongest colonies still had significant drone populations.  In my little valley, we […]

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Bee forage, Equipment, Queens, Summer, What did you do in the bee yard today?, What's blooming?

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