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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 Art on Jun 1st, 2010
This is a video of either 1) the Amazon swarm robbing Tomboys and Girls of Summer, or 2) new bees doing their orientation flights. This is either a good thing or a bad thing, and I can’t tell the difference. Ignorance is making me nuts. For some reason, I feel as if this is simply [...]
Posted in Hive Management on May 31st, 2010
After trimming trees around the house for much of the afternoon, we were taking a little iced-tea break on our deck. I began to see quite a bit of activity out in the bee yard…more than usual. It didn’t look like a swarm, but there were a lot of bees. You can see them when [...]