Spring’s sprung!
Spring is definitely popping. It seems like everything is suddenly blooming at once, and my hives are reflecting the good conditions. The hive on the left had freshly added wax […]
Category Archives: Swarm control
Equalizing
It felt great to finally be doing some serious hive inspections after a very wet spring break. Most of my colonies so far are looking pretty good, but I came […]
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 […]
Crazy splits
Meet Ilena East, or the remnants thereof after my visit of April 27. I visited Ilena East, on schedule to the day for a change, only to discover the hive […]
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 […]
