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Got to wrangle a nice swarm at Menards! Found the queen to cage and put into the Nuc.!

First time for everything I guess? Had some gear staged in the back of my truck and was lucky enough to have a swarm decide to take up residency!

Is in the books! The girls in my Downs apiary are on fire and I can’t keep up! I’ve had to take 2 truck loads of gear, pull multiple brood frames to prevent swarming and add equipment. The packages from https://honeypimpapiaries.com have been solid! Our vsh overwintered hives each have 4 supers w a 5thContinue reading “Another Crazy Weekend”

Weather has been perfect and girls are working hard pulling in nectar and expanding their numbers. This weekend is Memorial Day and a baseball tournament but I hope to get out and inspect all of the hives and get the final nucs ready for sale. I built 2 builders and have grafts in both soContinue reading “Midweek Update”

Last week had a great little queenless builder that cranked out some beautiful cells. I pulled the cells Wednesday and swapped in a fresh bar for them to build. As I was closing up the nuc I thought I had heard some queen pipping but there are some mating nucs pretty close so I justContinue reading “Builder Fail”

Man the girls are building like crazy on the honeysuckle flow! With all the rain it should be a great next week for the girls to build and build! As I’m inspecting I’ve been applying and OA dribble to help kill mites off. Between the OA vape and OA dibble the next few weeks I’mContinue reading “Hectic Week!”