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
Found! The cause of CCD
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
Harvesting Time
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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Jul 24
Honey Stick Machine Update
With a change of jobs and being in the middle of bee season, I haven’t had much time to devote to much else, including working on the honey stick machine.
I have noticed however that Dunbar Honey Farm is now advertizing their honey stick machine in the American Bee Journal for $1900 (Phone 586-770-9953). …
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Jun 19
I quit, sort of…
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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Jun 05
Beekeeping Goals for 2007
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
Unintentional 2 Queen Hives
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 17
Found, Your 2 cents at the Post Office!
As I’m sure most in the US already know, the Post Office recently raised the cost of a First Class stamp from 39 to 41 cents. They also raised the cost of most of their other services significantly. This especially affects priority and express mail which in turn affects the cost to ship honey and …
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May 09
The positive side of big winter losses.
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
It’s not CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder)!
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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