Tag Archives: Beekeeping

Hive North

We knew that we needed to deal with the swarm today, because there’s only so far a few squirts of sugar water will go. A call went in to Beez Kneez as soon as they opened at 10, and Jim … Continue reading

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Swarm! Swarm!

Well, that was interesting. Brett was leading an expedition through the “Jungle” area of the yard, with Mom and Lucy in tow, when he spotted a very strange looking pinecone on one of the evergreen trees.

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Bees – Troubleshooting

I wanted to make sure that the re-queening of Hive East went OK. We decided to do a full inspection of Hive East, and a mini-inspection of Hive West. Hive East is still not really drawing out the foundation on … Continue reading

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Bees, sitrep

I checked the hives today to see whether the requeening of the eastern hive was complete. This is the first time I’ve had to open the hives by myself. Things went fine. The queen cage was empty, and I didn’t … Continue reading

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Bees, problem solving

We intended to get the honey supers onto the beehives before we left on our road trip, but that didn’t happen. So, we did a full inspection yesterday, and noticed that the Eastern hive seemed to have fewer bees in … Continue reading

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