Spring Full Flower Moon Under the full flower moon I inspected my new colony of bees. In this instance I checked the frames for larvae. I couldn’t tell if they were there or not. This is important because it indicates the presence or absence of a laying queen. I’ll check again on Saturday. The queen […]
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Summer Waning Summer Moon The smoker worked. Mostly. The bees have had 2 to 2.5 months of breeding, brooding and comb building. There are a lot more bees than there were in April when Mark showed me how to load a box a’ bees into the first hive box. Weekly I’ve checked each frame, when […]
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Summer Waning Summer Moon Today the queen excluder goes on my three hives after I shift the bottom to the top and the top to the bottom. On top of the queen excluder goes two honey supers. A honey super has half the depth of a hive box. The queen excluder makes sure there is […]
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