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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”