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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!”

Thought i had a great video to share of how to drill a hole in bottom board and how to OA vape but my go-pro decided to not record it (probably forgot to hit the button). I have 45 more to treat this week so I will re-record! We have 3 days of steady rainContinue reading “First OA Vape”

First round of package inspections at one of the apiaries! While I was there applied the first Nosema dribble!

Busy day at the apiary today making sure the girls have plenty to eat! I’ll also be checking for eggs in all the hives that weren’t laying on Wednesday.

Yesterday I spent the afternoon pulling cages and checking on the 50 packages we started. Overall I was pleased with what I found. I unfortunately had one dead queen and most of the bees in that hive had absconded to other hives. I’m always blown away at how much burr comb the bees can buildContinue reading “Pulling Cages”