Tag: bees
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Combining Two Bee Hives.
AS well as taking a little honey from my bees, it is time to think about doing everything I can to ensure their survival through our brutal winters. My rule is two full supers of honey per hive by winter. Two hives are looking quite short so I have begun to supplement feed them already.…
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Hi Honey I’m Home.
Well, we looked inside all the hives and there has not been a huge escalation in much of anything. I would say things are just puttering along slowly. Much slower this year due to those two hives swarming at the beginning of the month and all that rain in the spring. A couple of…
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Bees move house.
As promised here are the photos of us housing the new bees. I am learning as we go with bees but one thing for sure is that when working with them I move slowly and gently so as not to cause a ruckus. For some reason this is always accompanied by a soothing monologue. I…
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