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Hive Check and Powdered Sugar Treatments

May 12, 2013.Reading time 9 minutes.

Maybe a week or two late but I have completed my first post-package installation hive check. Before I get suited up and open the hives I run through out loud what my plan is while I am working in the hive. This helps me make sure that I have the equipment I might need, plan […]

Hives Alive – 2013 Bee Adventure Beegins

April 21, 2013.Reading time 6 minutes.

Hives are alive again – 3 sets of new Italian girls. Sadly none of mine made it through the winter. I have plenty of hypotheses, nothing confirmed. In case you are wondering, bees come in packages by the pound, including one queen, marked (a dot with white out) or unmarked. Three pounds of bees, like […]