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Tag Archives: Bee
Product!
We sold our first gallon of honey tonight. It’s some of the 2013 stuff. I had to scramble to buy some labels and work out a design. I think it turned out pretty well: I need to remember to edit … Continue reading
Honey starting to come in
Over the course of the last 2 weeks, I’ve been starting to pull off fully-capped frames of honey from the supers. I’d put 3 supers on each hive, but the third super wasn’t getting a lot of action, and I … Continue reading
Summertime
I’m sitting in the dining room, watching bees zoom back and forth doing their thing. It’s very relaxing. The weather has been doing a strange thing for the past week. We’d had a hot spell, where it was clear and … Continue reading
Bees – Blackberry dearth, knotweed begins
I hadn’t been really putting much information on the blog this year about the bees. I don’t know why; I guess I’m just out of the habit. I’ve noticed that I am getting a lot more information form my inspections … Continue reading
Beekeeping tip
All the articles I read talk about opening the hive during the middle to late part of the day, with the idea being that most of the foraging workers will be out. With that in mind, I put together the … Continue reading
Bee inspection
This was our first inspection of the bees with their two-deep brooding hives. We hunkered down for a long look. We went in while the sun was still up. There were a few bees still flying in and out, and … Continue reading
Bees – moving on up
We did our second hive inspection today; things went much better this time, and we got through a long to-do list. I can see that things will get even smoother as we do more work with the bees. I don’t … Continue reading
Bees – first inspection
We lacked a bee smoker until now, so we were reluctant to do a full inspection of the hives. I was starting to get worried that if we had lost a queen somehow, we were about to have a hive … Continue reading
Bees, new weather sensor
As an astronomer, I’ve had a keen interest in the weather for the past few years. I’ve spent a lot of time attempting to chart sunny days and frosty ones, to give myself a feeling for when there could possibly … Continue reading
Bees, gathering pollen
It was real windy today, although the rain let up in the afternoon. When I stopped by to check on the bees after work, I definitely saw 2 bees go into the eastern hive with pollen on their rear legs! … Continue reading