Author Archives: AmericanHeritageApiary
First Honey Pull
Made my first honey pull from the downs yard netting 11 gallons of honey. I pushed the weather and did not have the best sunlight for the fume boards 😦 I also had almost a super and a half that looked like they were 100% capped and once we started to extract that was notContinue reading “First Honey Pull”
Checking Downs 3 of 3
Checking Downs 2 of 3
Checking Downs 1 of 3
Checking some FULL 8-Frame Gear
Checking Fresh Mating Nucs
No idea why so many of them were fully developed but not emerged. In the past I’ve seen where they are just duds and the cells aren’t developed but all of these cells were fully mature and just not alive. They must have gotten too hot or cold.
Making Splits 2
On these I totally cheated and Tom had all the brood frames pulled for me so it was easy!
Truck Grafting!
Always heard about it…never tried. Can’t say I liked it…..success was pretty poor as well.