June 2004

I started beekeeping in 1996 and have been doing it on and off since then. For about a decade, I kept a blog of my adventures. Haven’t updated it in a while, but ya never know.

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The girls looked like they had made good headway in filling up the two brood chambers, so it was time to put the first honey …

June 12, 2004

The experiment was, sadly, a failure. The girls chewed right through the string and filled in wax pretty much everywhere they could except anywhere near the objects I had so lovingly placed in their midst. …

June 8, 2004

So when I took out the queen cage, I noticed that the bees had built burr comb all around it. It looked beautiful, so I held onto it and mounted it as “art”. That got …

June 1, 2004