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Went through my 8 production colonies in Skåne yesterday and every single box smells like warm honey. Fresh white wax on the top bars, burr comb between boxes full of nec…
Yearly reminder for everyone enjoying the flow: do a wash NOW, not in August. In spring a 3% infestation (9 mites per 300 bees) is the common treatment trigger. From mid-…
My overwintered colony here in Vermont has become a monster: double deep, both packed, bees hanging off every frame, three mediums on and they're drawing and filling the …
Question for the late-flow chasers. Here in Małopolska the Japanese knotweed thickets along the rivers bloom from about late August into September, and the old-timers spe…
Perthshire, 7 seasons, first year doing cut comb properly on thin surplus foundation and I want to settle a timing argument I'm having with myself. Everything I've read s…
Third-year keeper in Uppsala and I finally tried grafting on Wednesday. Results are in: 3 accepted cells out of 20 grafts. I'm weirdly proud of the 3 but obviously want t…
Ontario second-year with a sinking feeling. Ordered a mated queen to requeen my grumpy hive; she shipped Monday in a standard cage with attendants and a candy plug, was s…
Third summer in North Carolina and my strongest hive has taken up permanent residence on its own front porch. It's been humid and 33-35°C for a week, and I expected after…
A thread for the Southern Hemisphere crowd, since the forum is understandably wall-to-wall swarms and supers right now. It's cold, grey mid-winter here in Wellington and …
I do a handful of removals every season here in Jalisco and finally retired my death-trap shop vac rig for a proper cyclone bucket build. Sharing because the difference i…
Minnesota first-year here, trying not to get greedy. My April package has done brilliantly: the deep is wall-to-wall brood and bees, and the medium above it is maybe 80% …
Bit of a soft question tonight. I'm five years in, out in rural Quebec, and the man who taught me everything — 40 years of beekeeping, could read a frame like a newspaper…
Fourth season in Devon and my strongest colony has decided it's time: five capped swarm cells along the bottom bars plus two charged open ones. Queen still present (saw h…
Yorkshire first-year keeper trying not to spiral. We had that cold wet snap last week (down to 6°C at night) and yesterday's inspection showed a patch of dead brood on th…
Something for the pure joy of it. A researcher friend visited my Tuscany apiary and brought a ridiculous rig: a fishing pole with a caged drone and a queen-pheromone lure…
Second-year beekeeper near İzmir with 3 hives that sit in full sun all day — everyone told me full sun is good when I started. But the forecast says 38°C, maybe 40°C, for…
Second year keeping bees in Galway and my nerves are in tatters. Colony swarmed at the end of May, I left one good cell, and I watched the virgin emerge on the 4th of Jun…
You all know the rhyme: a swarm in May is worth a load of hay, a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon, a swarm in July isn't worth a fly. Well, it's the 29th of June so …
Six years in and I'm a bit ashamed to admit this: I run two apiaries about 12 km apart here in Flanders, and my hive tool and gloves have been to every single colony with…
Quebec, 5 years. Our club got a booth at the regional fair in August plus two school visits in September, and I've volunteered (been volunteered) to build and run the obs…
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