Author Archives: AmericanHeritageApiary

Moved almost all my packages to 10 frame hives at my Downs apiary. Here are all the videos.

This hive is definitely a little frisky. I will be letting it go over the honey flow but she will be replaced late June and no drones selected.

The nectar flow is on strong now with black locust trees and honey suckle. Time to throw gear at the bees!

Sunday I made our first instrumentally inseminated queen. It’s a New World Carniolan VSH x Harbo VSH

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”