Winter Robbing
I was doing a routine yard check two weeks ago when I noticed an unusual amount of traffic in two hives, primarily back and forth–not good. It was late in […]
Category Archives: Queens
What did you do in the bee yard today? June 19, 2014
One of the colonies in the queen condo graduated today. They had completely filled their three frames and were drawing wax on the lid–a fair sign they’re ready for more […]
Mad May
This photo nicely sums up the reason for my Mad May’s radio silence (make that “blog silence,” I suppose.) Somewhere during the month of May, I slipped from controlling swarms to swarms controlling […]
What did you do in the bee yard today? April 12, 2014
This beautiful weather found me making (only slightly) panicked inspections of my hives after work in the evenings, two at a time. Reports of a swarm a few miles away […]
Lane County HiveWays 