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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
<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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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