Oct 21
Still incredibly good weather for this month. There isn’t much left for the bees to work as the goldenrod has finished blooming and is going to seed, and just about everything else left is drying up. Strangely, the bees don’t seem to be too interested in robbing as I would expect in such a dearth. …
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Oct 18
It’s hard to believe by looking outside that it’s well into Fall and bee season should basically be over. But the temperatures are still in the upper 60′s and into the 70′s with no chance of frost yet in the 10 day forecast. What a huge change from last year with it’s cool wet weather …
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Sep 25
This month every beekeeping magazine and newsletter is filled with the news. The cause of CCD (Colony collapse disorder) has been found, or at least they think they have found it. Researches have found that hives with the Israeli Acute Paralysis (IAP) virus has a strong correlation to hives affected by CCD. Not a slam …
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Aug 15
Over the past couple week the weather has been very hot an humid and generally very little wind. It’s been unpleasant to do just about anything as you break out in a heavy sweat doing anything more than sitting still in front of the fan. The bees thought so too and spent a great deal …
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Jun 05
I suppose this should be something that is traditionally done around the near year, but everything seems to be running late. Poor weather and lack of time with my wife staring her new real estate office, my day job, and other things that came up during the spring and summer that kept me …
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May 25
One of my goals this year, among others, is to have all my queens marked. So in the course of routine inspections I’ve been making an attempt to find the queen and mark her, because it is much easier to find them now than later in the season when their population is much higher. (or …
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May 09
At first it’s hard to think of a positive side of losing 55% (or more) of your hives. It means lost sales of nucs, queens, expense and time buying packages and/or making splits and possibly a reduced honey crop because split hives aren’t as strong as they should be when the flow starts.
But there …
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May 08
Any other beekeeper out there sick and tired about hearing this ‘mysterious’ bee disease, CCD (Colony colapse disorder?). The coverage has been overwhelming from national to local TV coverage (on every network including PBS), radio and newspapers down the small local papers. And it seems to be increasing with attention from even the US congress. …
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May 04
The image to the right is NOT, I repeat, NOT a honey bee. Nor has anyone figured out how to get honey out of them. It is rather a yellow jacket, a type of wasp. They are the stinging insect that hangs around garbage cans at amusement parks and ball games, especially in the fall, …
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Apr 24
I’m only running about 2 weeks late due to the weather. On Friday I made up a strong queenless hive by removing a queen a couple frames of brood and bees from a hive, placing them in a five frame nuc. Then adding a full medium of bees and brood to the now queenless hive. …
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