Remember those bees don't read the books!
In the picture above you can see the newspaper between the two hives. As of yesterday, Oct. 3, 2017, they still had not combined and...
Hive Update
Since the field day I have been over to check on what I am referring to as the "double hive", or the one we combined. I am calling it...
September Field Day
Here is a nice picture of the queen in the vertical hive we combined with the horizontal hive. Thanks to Kelly Bolthouse for taking the...
What to do in September
Today I checked the hives. It has been about three weeks since the last field day and the goldenrod flow is in full swing. The two...
August field day
We had a nice day for a field day. Although there were a few dark clouds that floated by, they didn't drop anything and it was in the...
July Field Day
We had a beautiful day to have our first field day at our new location. It was sunny and mid 70's. We had a really new beekeeper join...
Update after the move.
Today I just couldn't wait any longer to see how the bees were doing after their move. It is a sooner than I would usually check, but I...
You do what you have to do
I realized suddenly that here it is the first day of summer. This is the turning point in the beekeeping season. After this point, the...
Not so fast...
Isn't this a nice sign? A friend gave it to me a few weeks ago. I thought it would be good to put by my hives by the greenhouse. I...
June Field Day
Our June field day was Saturday, June 10, 2017. It was a warm (actually hot) day. We checked the horizontal and vertical hives by my...
