Oct 23
Small hive beetles are another one of those pests imported into the US (discovered in 1998). While they can be a serious problem in the Southeastern US, making a fermenting mess of the comb in the hive, they have yet to cause serious problems for most here in Ohio. No one I’ve talked to has …
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Oct 22
I had the opportunity last weekend to attend the North Central Queen Assembly held in Troy, Ohio. It was entitled ‘Selecting and Rearing Your Own Queens’, which did make me think the information was going to be rather introductory and basic and that I wouldn’t get all that much out of it. It’s the downside …
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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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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 19
I quit my job. I never really thought that after 12 years at Kohli & Kaliher Associates I’d be doing anything else unless I could afford to do beekeeping full time. But I had a good offer from a company I did some freelance programming work for over the past several years and could …
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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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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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Apr 23
After 2 weeks of delays, the bees are here. 110 packages of bees arrived around 7 and Saturday. While I was eager to get them started, I really didn’t mind the delay due to all the bad weather, and even snow we had the previous weeks. By 8 the first beekeeper had already picked …
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