First Syrup of 2026
Today kicked off the first feeding! …….and we are off!!!
Plan Year 1.0
After reading some books and watching a few hundred hours of talks and other videos/podcasts I have settled on my first pass as to how I’ll transition to not treating. From everything I’ve seen, heard, and read it’s going to be a painful 5/7 years process. Luckily I’ve had some great help and encouragement along…
Treatment Free?
Background: My first year keeping bees started off great! Package install went smooth other than some anxiety and nervous jitter. Both queens successfully released, the girls slurped down the syrup, and they built out some beautiful come. I had a great spot that provided water, pollen and a bounty of nectar. I followed all of…
OA Treatment
Yesterday was a perfect weather day to check hives and administer OA treatments! One thing that I forget every year is what a pain it is to run a generator to run my old OA applicator. To alleviate this issue I am trying out a converter that will take my DeWalt factor batteries. https://a.co/d/8iMCNNR Will…
First Liquid Feed
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!!!
2025 Calendar
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!
Pulling Some Brood
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.
Catching and Marking Queens
Always my favorite thing to do, love to see how they turn out!
Early July Brood Robbing
Needed some brood for some cells so went through an apiary to grab brood to make split.
Jason Bragg’s ii Class
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 and…
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