Author Archives: AmericanHeritageApiary

Two hives at this apiary made it through the winter, this one was VERY strong.

Going to try something a little different, following along some hives through a year and keep track of what goes on. 05/22/2022

Going to try something a little different, following along some hives through a year and keep track of what goes on. 05/22/2022

Started moving hives that were out of room and starting to get plugged up with nectar and brood into 10 frame hives. This is the supercedure queen from our Harbo breeder from 2020.

Had a nice queen come through in a hive w barely any bees and I had a package that something happened to the queen. To make the most of what I had I cleaned off all the cells from the package and did a newspaper combine with the overwinter queen. I also add sa fewContinue reading “Weak Queen, Queenless Combine”

Always wanting to check things out I ordered 2 Caucasian queens to try.

I did take a peak at 5 or 6 of the overwintered hive to see where I was at for brood. I have a few hives that will be perfect for a split to put cells on in 2 weeks.

I always wondered how much work and knew it was a workout when I was moving bees, doing inspections, etc. Universe decided to intervene and flip my watch on to track a workout.