Welcome to Honey Run Apiaries.   Please forgive the mess as we are completely redoing our website to make it easier to maintain and expand.    It is the off season now for beekeeping so it’s an opportune time to upgrade the website.   Please let us know of any broken links you may find or if you think we missed including something important.  In the mean time, here are some of the important  pages from the old site:

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Drones – Time to graft.

Inspections last week found very little in the way of capped drone cells.  This Sunday was a completely different story.

As you can see by the lower picture, the hives have consumed the majority of the pollen patties placed earlier and now  have a large quantity of drone brood.    I did check …

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Queens Delayed This Year

In a typical year silver maples would have bloomed several weeks ago and we would be seeing hives increasing in size significantly and a fair amount of drone brood.

This has not been a typical year so far.  And unlike last year that was several weeks ahead, this year is the opposite.  The silver …

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