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Posted in Visitors to the beeyard on Sep 22nd, 2010
Jerod is the first person other than me to work in my hives. He’s also the first person to visit the bees who wants to keep a hive himself…and I trust the way Jerod works, so there you go. In anticipation of getting his first hives next spring, he’s been reading The Complete Idiot’s Guide [...]
Posted in Pests on Sep 12th, 2010
Reader, yesterday I was a clutz. Yesterday marks an all-time low on the clumsy beekeeper scale, and I still get a little sick thinking about it. As I was trying to deal with the issue of yellow jackets at site of the August Boatwright hive, I accidently lifted a hive box full of bee upside [...]
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, [...]