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Calendar: First and foremost I laid out a calendar to Schedule major activities within my Apiary. Starting with when to make my spring splits, install packages, treat for mites, it’s all there. I’m a list driven personality, will be able to refer to calendar and then pivot to making a list for the week. MyContinue reading “2022/2023 Planning and Changes Part 1”

1. Have to feed and feed and feed the girls up in late August and September. Probably my biggest regret of the season. 2. Hammer the mites! I did minimal treating last year and it drastically increased my over-wintering success rate. Will be actively selecting for VSH and upping my genetics game with II, stillContinue reading “2021 Season Lessons Learned”

After a few weeks of searching high and low my go pro rig has been located! Warning: videos will to start dropping in the next few weeks!!

Spring has sprung, well kind of…. What’s new? Not a whole lot really happening bee wise this time of year. My over-wintering was slightly more successful than the past few years with 12 of 40 hives making it through until now. This will be my last year of Darwin-istic bee keeping, I am going toContinue reading “Spring”

I know I haven’t posted in a while…just been laser focused on getting our first queens instrumentally inseminated. Was very exciting to have some success instrumental inseminating some bee queens! Queens are caged in nucs waiting to be released and hopefully starting to lay!!! 3 down 10 to go!!!

I’ve tried to find this lovely queen 4-5 times on 3 frames of bees and as of this video she is still winning!