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With solid pollen flow and some nectar starting to trickle in the upcoming warm weather, and more importantly the warm evenings, is going to kick off the crazy spring bee season. Most of my hives are FULL of bees and they will be gearing up to swarm. Three weeks ago I added drawn comb andContinue reading “First Grafts and Splits”

It’s that magical time of year when we sit back and daydream about what our beekeeping season is going to look like and set our goals for the year. I’ve tried to get in the habit of keeping a calendar of what I need to do with the hives at approximately what time. I knowContinue reading “Spring Planning”

Since I’ve posted. More content to start coming next few weeks. Caught some queens a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/K9BuZ3MBDV8

Nothing too exciting just pulling some queen cages and feeding:

Here’s to hopefully the last round of purchased packages!

Had a chance to check a few boxes off the broke man’s bucket list. Headed down to Tennessee to see one of the biggest and best RC car races the Psycho Nitro Blast. It was as awesome and impressive as I imagined! Pictures don’t do it justice! After that I rant to Fort Valley, GeorgiaContinue reading “Spring Trip”

If you just started packages the table below should provide you with a way to check your progress. This is just an estimate/model and the dates are subject to change. I’ll be inspecting my stuff this weekend and counting brood frames taking notes on where each is compared to the model. I started my packagesContinue reading “Package Inspection(s)”

By far the most efficient and easiest way to make a split. All you need is an extra box and a queen excluder. Organize all your frames into brood, food, and empty while looking for the queen. Put the frames you want to stay in the bottom box. Shake all of the rest of framesContinue reading “Shake Splits”

Nothing too crazy…just giving the girls some syrup!

With grafting season just around the corner and the hives all not being treated since late summer it was an ok time to do some checking for a potential vsh breeder that overwintered. I checked 9 hives at random. Hives 12 and 18 were mite bombs, reproductive mites everywhere. Hives 13, 14, 15 all hadContinue reading “VSH Testing”