{"id":19591,"date":"2013-04-16T16:03:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T22:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=19591"},"modified":"2013-04-16T16:03:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T22:03:52","slug":"bee-diary-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=19591","title":{"rendered":"Bee Diary:  2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Planting Moon<\/p>\n<p>Cleaned out the hive boxes for the ornery colony, the one I thought sure would survive the winter. \u00a0They didn&#8217;t starve. \u00a0There was enough honey in the top box to wrench my back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Rbees41412.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-19592\" title=\"Rbees41412\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Rbees41412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Rbees41412.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Rbees41412-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a>when I moved it, probably over 50 pounds. \u00a0The bees themselves looked healthy. \u00a0They were buzzing on January 19th, then when I checked them next on February 27th the colony had died. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t my management practices then, but something else. \u00a0Hard to say what at this point.<\/p>\n<p>While I was outside working, which felt very good, our generator turned itself on, what the generator folks exercising. \u00a0It takes itself for a spin once a week just to make sure all systems are functional. \u00a0It was a surprise to hear it chug into action while I cleaned the bottom board of dead bees.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it was, Artemis Hives is once again ready for a new bee package. \u00a0Arriving here on Saturday, April 20th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Planting Moon Cleaned out the hive boxes for the ornery colony, the one I thought sure would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=19591\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bee Diary:  2013<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24099,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19591\/revisions\/24099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}