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Beehive Maintainance After a Snow Storm

January 8, 2014

As you can see, this past blizzard left the beehives completely covered in snow. Each hive sits upon two cinder blocks. The snow covered those cinder blocks and fell until the first lower deep (box) was completely covered in snow. This was the most snow my hives had seen in a long time.Read more

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Beekeeping DIY Hive Maintainance

Winterizing the Bees

November 15, 2013

Last week, I caught the bees outside on a warmer fall day. They were sipping water from the decorative cabbages on the front porch. I sat and watched them. Each dipped their proboscis into the water. They seemed to enjoy the warmth of the sun. Their movements were sluggish. These were not summer bees but…

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Beekeeping Bees Hive Maintainance

Queen cups

August 4, 2013

I took a moment this week to head over to my third hive. I had not visited it in a couple of weeks. When I arrived I could not believe my eyes. I opened the hive and discovered that the population had boomed!!! The hive was crowded. At 1 pm in the afternoon, most of…

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Beekeeping Bees Hive Maintainance

Summer Dearth and Starving Bees

July 30, 2013

The smoker waits near the hive to be lit. It had been approximately three weeks since I had last inspected the hives on my property entirely. It was time to go in yesterday and take a peek at the bees’ status. The first hive I opened was Briar. Everything looked great! There were eggs, lots…

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Beekeeping Bees Hive Maintainance

First Week of April~Update on the Beehives

April 1, 2013

A fellow beekeeper’s hive with a healthy brood pattern (center of frame-each cell filled with a new baby bee waiting to emerge) As you read in my last post a few weeks ago, both beehives survived the winter and both underwent a bit of spring maintenance. Today, it was sixty degrees outside and the sun was…

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Beekeeping Bees Hive Maintainance

Spring in the Beehives: The Bees Have Emerged

March 15, 2013

Two days ago it was the first day of truly warmer weather. We reached 55 degrees. As I headed out to my car this afternoon to run some errands, I noticed that my car was covered in bee poo, blobs of yellow dots and streaks adorned my car. This was a good sign. Knowing the…

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Beekeeping Bees Hive Maintainance

A Peek at the Beehives in Winter

January 11, 2013

Last, week the hives were covered in snow. Earlier this week I went to our monthly local beekeeper’s meeting. As always, it is so wonderful connecting with folks, checking in with them and hearing updates about their lives and the bees. Over the course, of chatting, I quickly learned that many folks had already lost…

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Beekeeping Bees DIY Hive Maintainance

A Winter Beehive Candy Board

December 1, 2012

Honeybees work. They work all spring and summer to store up enough pollen and honey for their colony to survive the winter. However, sometimes, their best efforts are not enough and they can end up starving to death if their supplies run out. As you have read, in the early spring and late fall when…

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Beekeeping Bees DIY Hive Maintainance

Preparing the Hives for Winter

November 2, 2012

Hives with mouse guards perched on top ready to be inserted. Winter preparations have begun. This week I took the honey supers (honey collectors) off of the last hive. Three weeks ago these two supers were half-full of uncapped honey. As I removed the supers, they were barren of honey. The bees must have moved…

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Beekeeping Bees Hive Maintainance

Robbers and Invaders

September 14, 2012

Eggplant, cardoon, basil and tomatoes thrive near the hives. My nine year old son decided to title this post. You see, I had a heck of a time with the bees yesterday! It had been a while since I had entered my hives as I was just letting the bees do “their thing”. During…

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Beehive Maintainance After a Snow Storm

Winterizing the Bees

Queen cups

Summer Dearth and Starving Bees

First Week of April~Update on the Beehives

Spring in the Beehives: The Bees Have Emerged

A Peek at the Beehives in Winter

A Winter Beehive Candy Board

Preparing the Hives for Winter

Robbers and Invaders

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