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Rooftop Bees Ready for a Hurricane “At this moment, You mean everything.” I got the gals prepared for Hurricane Irene in style today. I moved them closer to the house to protect them from the wind and then dressed them up in that pretty red tie down strap. Hopefully they […]
Because they would starve without me. For more than three weeks now the cup plant flowers have been in bloom. There are hundreds of them in the wetlands behind my house. Since these flowers are 40 feet or so from the hive, I thought they would be a great source […]
And the flight of the bumble bee. Inspecting the hive in a two queen system is a bit complicated. It is similar to opening two beehives at the same time and leaving them both open while you work. It takes up more space then a normal hive inspection and makes […]
Cutting Comb Is A Sticky Gooey Mess, But Processing It Is Fun! After I cut the burr comb out of my hive, I was left with a sticky gooey mess. There was honey leaking from my hive (which the bees fixed the next day) and a cookie sheet full of […]
I’m officially in the bee murder’s club now and it doesn’t feel good at all. Today was my first real inspection of my two queen hive. Yesterday, I lifted the cover briefly to see if they had chewed through the paper, which they had, and then slid the top hive […]
A hive by any other name would smell as sweet. As a brand new beekeeper, I’ve had a difficult first year. If it wasn’t for the support of my wonderful bee mentor, the bee master Stan, and my brand new bee buddies from bee school, I would not have made […]