Author Archives: AmericanHeritageApiary

Spent April 9th filling feeders but more importantly going through all of the gear at my apiary and cleaning it up!

This one was a bummer…

After a long winter April 3rd was the day to look at our New River Carnica VSH from Jason Bragg and New River Honey Bees. Inspection went well, she looked great, and there was a great start of bees that will have some awesome grafts in a few weeks. https://youtu.be/R2Vb1zTU7Tw

Varroa Management: Rough outline on my treatment plan. I’m usually very anal and plan for things years in advance but for whatever reason I have always just wung it for pest management. Little late to the party but I did realize I need to lay out a formal plan and execute. Being a bee keeperContinue reading “2022/2023 Planning and Changes – Varroa Part 3”

Made a lot of progress in the bee yard yesterday. Got up early and cleaned up my storage spot, unfortunately I will be losing it due to housing development so trying to get ahead. i got all of my feeders wiped down and rinsed out fairly well. Was able to mix up 20 gallons ofContinue reading “Busy Saturday!!”

Varroa Management: Rough outline on my treatment plan. I’m usually very anal and plan for things years in advance but for whatever reason I have always just wung it for pest management. Little late to the party but I did realize I need to lay out a formal plan and execute. Being a bee keeperContinue reading “2022/2023 Planning and Changes – Varroa Part 2”

Made it through 11 of my survivor hives, video coming, adding feed and checking strength. 5 of the hives were moderately strong, 2 were queenless and 4 were really doing well. Definitely have some strong genetics to select from. My 3rd ii queen made it though the winter, picture below! Very excited about getting herContinue reading “Bee Work”