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Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Sep 15th, 2010
Amazons swarmed again yesterday. I love that colony…they’re so vigorous. Yes, I think I know why they keep swarming, but I can’t think of a way around it. I was sitting on my deck writing a thing on my computer when I noticed a lot of bees. And then I realized it was a LOT [...]
Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Sep 7th, 2010
Aren’t you getting tired of this? I am. Let’s just cut to the chase. We got the bees home, and the next morning they were crazy busy…and busy loooong before my other bees. The air and the garden and the woods were full of them checking out their new surroundings. When I went to feed [...]
Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Sep 6th, 2010
Once we had all the comb out of the tree and banded into frames, though, the bees didn’t want to move into their new boxes with their comb. They clung to the tree trunk or flew around aimlessly. I started to look a little aimless myself. I mean, what the heck do you do now? [...]
Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Sep 5th, 2010
Sorry to have left you hanging there, Reader. I went on a little vacation into the north woods. You can thank me for bringing all this nice weather home. So, Dave and Kyle strung some rope to give tension and guide the tree as it fell; then Dave cut a notch from the tree trunk. [...]
Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Aug 29th, 2010
Where on earth to begin with this one? Seriously…I’m sitting here wondering how to tell you about the day yesterday. We now have a new colony of bees in the TwoHoneys apiary: We call it August Boatwright, after the Queen Latifah character in the Secret Life of Bees. It is August, after all, right? And [...]
Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Aug 26th, 2010
We’re sort of waiting in limbo here about removing the bees from their tree. Our wonderful arborist, David Shaw (whom I adore), is busy securing permission to access the tree via property owned by whoever owns the big field next to the tree. We’ll need to access the tree via this big field; and then, [...]
Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Aug 23rd, 2010
Crap. Yesterday I dropped my brand new iPhone and busted the screen. Not to worry…the wonderful folks at the Apple store replaced it right away with no questions asked. (But if you’ve got the iPhone 4, beware: That danged screen will crack at the drop of a hat. I’m thinking of getting a case for [...]
Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Aug 16th, 2010
You know I went to check out the bee tree, right? Well, for some reason, I thought I was heading to some guy’s house. I thought he had a tree on his property near some field he’d mown down to serve as a picnic area he’d planned on renting out. Instead, I drove up to [...]
Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Aug 13th, 2010
Good morning, Reader. Amazing that a week can fly by as this one has. Today I go to look at the bees in the tree. However, I’ve decided not to attempt removing them…unless I can convince the guy who owns it to cut the tree down. He says it’s pretty much dead anyway, and without [...]
Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Aug 12th, 2010
Every day lately, Reader, I get a call about bees. People call me to say they have a swarm of bees in their attic or in their doorframe or in a tree trunk. They don’t really mean “a swarm.” A swarm is a mass of bees that hasn’t yet found its next home. The people [...]