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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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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Apr 14
It seems like winter just doesn’t want to let go this spring. I’ve actually seen snow falling more than half the days this past week. It hasn’t been terribly warm this week and the snow that has been sweeping across the country from Colorado to the Northeast arived this afternoon. I couldn’t get a picture …
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Apr 09
What is wrong with this picture? April and today at 41 degrees, was the warmest day in the past 6. 4 of those days I’ve awoke to find snow on the ground. (I had a picture of hives in the snow take just yesterday, but it was on a new camera phone and I just …
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Mar 15
As I wrote the previous post I know losses were high. But until I got into the rest of the yards, I didn’t know how high. At home they weren’t too bad, but some of the out yards got hit hard. It’s nothing like anything I’ve seen before. Everyone I’ve talked to in the state …
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Mar 12
Large drifts still have not yet melted, but it’s finally above freezing with temperatures near 50 for the past few days. The latter part of last week was spent mixing up sugar syrup and feeding hives to get them moving and prevent starvation. I also put out dry pollen substitue to keep them busy until …
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Dec 05
The warm spell is definately over with highs now in the 20′s and the bees are nicely tucked away in their hives. The front that brought an end to the heat wave came in with a roar with wind gusts I believe near 50 mph. I ended up having to check all my hives and …
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Dec 01
It’s been in the high 50′s and low 60′s for more than a week now, with lows that often didn’t get below 50. It’s the kind of warm spell you would kill for in mid March that brings the Silver Maple’s into bloom and gives the bees a huge jump start in spring. The kind …
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Nov 22
I recently was informed of another Honey Stick Machine it is on the market. It is not automatic, but sounds like it may work a bit faster than how I’ve currently been filling straws. It consists of a special pump that is made special in india that fills the straws with raw, unheated honey …
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