With the unseasonably warm weather in the 70's the bees are building up quickly and flowers are well ahead of schedule. Based on pictures from last year (Specifically the picture from the blog post Buzzing Trees with it's picture of a pear tree taken last year) the blooms are about 2 weeks 3 days …
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May 08
Bees on a Plane
Snakes on a Plane? Nope, just bees. Most beekeepers just picked up their bees by car or truck, but this Michigan beekeeper saved some time by air.
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May 06
Package Bees
The package bees arrived this past Friday and most beekeepers who had ordered a packaged picked them up on Saturday with the remainder picked up on Sunday. I must say I was impressed with the quality of the packages so far. The bees were in very good shape with fewer dead bees than I’ve …
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Apr 24
Buzzing Trees
There is nothing quite so wonderful and calming as walking by a tree in full bloom and listening to the tree literally humming with activity. This was the picture today (Thursday) as the pear trees were blooming today under a perfectly clear sky. Some trees were just starting to bloom, and others like the one …
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Apr 23
Spring May Have Arrived.
Finally…. The dandelions and pear trees have started blooming. A good sign that spring may finally be here to stay. You can see the large load of pollen this bee has already collected on her back legs.
April has generally been cold and wet seriously limiting the number of days that it’s been possible …
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Apr 13
Cold April
I has bee a fairly cold start to April. I should be thankful it’s not snowing, but the consistently cool weather has made it nearly impossible to begin any inspections or other bee work that involved more than peeking under the inner cover. The hives do appear to be building up well and …
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May 28
Requeen your hives!
It’s May 28th. Do your hives look like this in Ohio?
10 of the 14 hives in this apiary look this strong right now. The 2nd to the top super was added to the hive just 2 weeks ago and most hives already have a significant amount of honey in …
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May 20
The Spring Rush…
I’m still here in spite of my absence from the blog for about a month. Not to worry, I’ve suffered no tragic accident, I’ve simply been busy with work and bees from dawn till dusk and sometimes much later.
The weather here has been cool and wet and we are still consistently well below the …
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Apr 10
The Season Begins…
The spring season has started in earnest. This past Saturday the silver maples started blooming and by Sunday enough was blooming that the bees were completely ignoring the open feed pollen substitute. Probably a good thing as real pollen is better for them and I was starting to run out of substitute as they …
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Mar 26
Do Bees Need Fiber?
Today was the warmest day we’ve had in quite some time, reaching the mid 50′s. All the hives were very active and there was more activity at the open fed pollen than I have seen so far this season. Apparently there was too much traffic at the bucket to satisfy some bees, so several …
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