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Posted in Equipment on Apr 16th, 2011
Some days I move around a lot with little to show for it. Yesterday was one of those days. I put the finishing touches on the three remaining swarm-lure boxes: I added frames of drawn comb, and I drilled holes in the lids of three used plastic medicine bottles into each of which I put [...]
Posted in Swarm on Apr 15th, 2011
You know, I wait all winter long…think all winter long…plan and build all winter long…and still I am late when it comes to execution. Well, maybe not late, but certainly not early. I think it’s swarm season, and as of yesterday I still hadn’t hung my home-built swarm boxes in their trees. So, yesterday I [...]
Posted in Education on Jun 4th, 2010
Those bee colonies that swarm are strong, and I want strong bees. I hated that one of my hives died last year…the hive that died was always kind of slow compared to the Amazons (which I got as a result of a swarm from Chris’s hive). It makes sense that it you’ve got strong colonies, [...]
Posted in Hive Management on May 30th, 2010
I go from being happy to being sad about the Amazon swarm. Happy because some mighty fine and robust and healthy bees have propagated, and they live near me. Sad because half my Amazon hive is gone. Happy because half my Amazon hive remains. Sad because I just read in Bee Culture magazine that there [...]
Posted in Education on May 29th, 2010
We’d just settled down in the Adirondack chairs when I looked up into the tree. And there was something just not right about something up there…it looked odd. And then I saw it—the SWARM. My Amazons had swarmed and the swarm was drooping from the lowest branch of a tall tall tree. Too high to [...]