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.
I was freaked out this past week because I thought the girls were getting ready to bolt. I thought I’d given them such a lovely home, all the sugar syrup they could drink, flowers galore, …
Took a peek today to make sure they had found the new frames I put in last month. Sometimes the queen excluder can throw them and they don’t find it, but didn’t appear to be …
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 super. I went in pretty early in the day, around …
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. …
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 …
It’s been just under a month since we got the hives started and they’re thriving! We popped ’em open to make sure the queens were laying and just take a look at all that healthy …
We took our first peek to see how the girls are settling in and everything looked just fine. As you can see in the first picture below, there was a bit of burr comb built …
I used to keep bees five or six years back, but after a bad year or two of Varroa and other hobbies on my plate, I gave up. I’ve always had a hankering to get …
