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Posted in Education on Jul 31st, 2010
Sometime during the day yesterday, I got bored. Maybe because 13 hours of anything just wears me out…I’ve been slipping away from the conference. I slip out of the room and outside to the sun. I take long walks in the woods. I slip into the car and drive to the hotel for a nap. [...]
Posted in Education on Jul 30th, 2010
I’ve found my people. (I found my people after getting pretty crazily lost in Boston. I must have passed Fenway Park 3 or 4 times. I swear to you…I could smell the hot dogs before I spotted Fenway. No lie.) Eventually I got back on track and made it to Leominster, Massachusetts in time for [...]
Posted in Education on Jul 29th, 2010
This morning I’m off to the Northeast Treatment Free Beekeeping conference. (I wonder if those people in charge realize that “Treatment-Free Beekeeping” requires a hyphen because there isn’t one in their title. You can’t just throw a bunch of words together and have it make sense…unless you’re me). I don’t know if I should pack [...]
Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Jul 28th, 2010
I know you wonder what on earth I wear out there with the bees. Here it is. Cute, but hot.
Posted in honey on Jul 25th, 2010
Jim’s bees made him some beautiful honey this year, and yesterday he made a little party out of harvesting it. I helped pull honey from the supers…it was only around 96 degrees out there! Actually, the fact that the honey was so danged warm made it easier to extract (and, oh my gosh…you should taste [...]
Posted in Hive Management on Jul 20th, 2010
Success! Yesterday I inserted a box I fashioned from two shallows between my two brood boxes in Girls of Summer. They’re the most robust of our colonies, and they’ve been mighty crowded and hot and bearding like crazy. So, I pulled deep frames of brood up from the bottom box and into the center of [...]
Posted in Hive Management on Jul 19th, 2010
Those bees are bearding like crazy. Which means they are hot and crowded. But they won’t move up into the new supers I’ve added in order to give them some extra room. And yesterday I found swarm cells in Tomboys again. Shit. I would normally add an empty box below one of the brood boxes [...]
Posted in Products of the hive on Jul 18th, 2010
Deb got stung by one of her uncle Doyle’s bees. We spent a couple of days on the farm in Waco, Kentucky; and when we visited with her uncle Doyle, we all went out to look at his bees. He has only one hive now, but it’s stacked with six honey supers…it’s tall, and you [...]
Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Jul 15th, 2010
I put my name out on the internet as a honeybee-swarm collector, and I’ve been getting tons of calls to remove bees from structures…like log cabins, etc. Every day someone calls about bees. I want to collect swarms, but I don’t do “cut outs.” However, this morning I got a call from our friend, Don, [...]
Posted in Hive Management, Uncategorized on Jul 14th, 2010
I discovered a couple of swarm cells in Tomboys before I left for Florida last week. I thought for sure Tomboys would swarm before I returned, and they may have…hard to tell. Today the swarm cells were still there, so in order to keep the bees from swarming and to take advantage of the new [...]