Bee Diary: April 16, 2011

Spring                                                          Waxing Bee Hiving Moon

All day today at the Bell Museum on the UofM campus.  Advanced beekeeping.  I learned a number of new things that I’ll take to heart this year.  One is an experiment I plan to do with two colonies which will involve one hive box, then all honey supers after that.  The third colony I plan to treat in the usual way with building up the colony to three hive boxes with plenty of honey and then trying, again, to overwinter.

Other new wrinkles here and there, too.  Marla Spivak and Gary Reuter do a funny and informative dance, switching between hive management (Gary) and bee diseases and research (Marla).

I just got back and have had no nap, so I’m off to bed.  Later.