What did you do in the bee yard today? August 9, 2015
It’s the season to streamline my bee yard. This colony failed to requeen itself after a split, so I combined it with a queenright nuc made from a spring split. […]
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Retinue…check!
In times when some beekeepers are reporting less-than-impressive retinue behavior, that “She is the center of our universe” attention given to the queen by worker bees, I was pretty happy […]
Fed up with toothpicks
June saw me part ways with toothpicks. I had spent the month of May dutifully inserting toothpicks between the hive bodies of my colonies to give them extra air flow […]
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 […]
It’s just plain hot!
I got a worried call from home today…”Are you coming home soon? The bees are doing something weird!” This bunch was due for an inspection soon, so in I went. […]
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