Author Archives: AmericanHeritageApiary

More or less just posting so I can remember when…. Added feeders and about 1:1 w a pollen patty. Few of the ii queens were already at 5/6 frames of brood so I added a second deep! And just like they were off!!!

New to beekeeping? Just unsure of what to be doing when? I’ll be posting and updating my 2025 calendar of what I’m doing as well as blogging!

It’s that time of the year. Pre-splits but still too brood heavy. Best way to deal with this is to pull some brood from all the hives, especially the 8-frame single deeps.

Always my favorite thing to do, love to see how they turn out!

Needed some brood for some cells so went through an apiary to grab brood to make split.

Just returned from vising Jason Bragg at https://wvqueenbees.com/ to take his 2 day instrumental insemination class. While I’ve been insturmentally inseminating queens for a few years my success rates haven’t been as high as I wanted, and I ran into an issue this year where I was getting way too many drone layers. Tom andContinue reading “Jason Bragg’s ii Class”

With solid pollen flow and some nectar starting to trickle in the upcoming warm weather, and more importantly the warm evenings, is going to kick off the crazy spring bee season. Most of my hives are FULL of bees and they will be gearing up to swarm. Three weeks ago I added drawn comb andContinue reading “First Grafts and Splits”

It’s that magical time of year when we sit back and daydream about what our beekeeping season is going to look like and set our goals for the year. I’ve tried to get in the habit of keeping a calendar of what I need to do with the hives at approximately what time. I knowContinue reading “Spring Planning”

Since I’ve posted. More content to start coming next few weeks. Caught some queens a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/K9BuZ3MBDV8

Nothing too exciting just pulling some queen cages and feeding: