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Category Archives: Swarm control

Spring’s sprung!

April 10, 2016by kgoodwinus 1 Comment

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 […]

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Spring, Swarm control, What did you do in the bee yard today?

Equalizing

March 30, 2016by kgoodwinus Leave a comment

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 […]

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

Caged

June 20, 2015by kgoodwinus Leave a comment

<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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Equipment, Queens, Summer, Swarm control, What did you do in the bee yard today?

Crazy splits

May 14, 2015by kgoodwinus 2 Comments

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 […]

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What did you do in the bee yard today? June 19, 2014

June 19, 2014by kgoodwinus Leave a comment

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 […]

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Mad May

June 16, 2014by kgoodwinus 2 Comments

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 […]

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Equipment, Queens, Spring, Swarm control, What did you do in the bee yard today?

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