My recent experience with 20 new queens I think illustrates why it is a good idea to check your queens during introduction. I had gone away for the Easter weekend, leaving all 20 Strachan New World Carniolan queens caged in the new splits. On Monday morning with Gary, my helper, …
Coming out of the 2012-2013 winter we experienced our worst bee loss in 17 years. It was a blow to us – our operation’s honeybee survival was at stake. Coming out of the prior 10 winters our average winter loss was always between 10-20% and that was with bees which …
We confirmed last weekend that our New World Carniolan 2014 Breeder Queen will arrive the 1st week in May. This will be our sixth year that we will be bringing in a Carniolan Breeder queen from Sue Cobey. Mary has grown quite fond of the New World Carniolan queens; she …
For the last four years we have been using the following Winter Nuc preparation method. We first heard about preparing Winter Nucs during a talk Kirk Webster made at a local beekeeping organization; our method has been slightly modified from Kirk’s. In the early Spring winter nucs which have survived …
We are taking applications for our Beekeeping Internship for 2014. You will learn how to manage the Carniolan honeybee and how to rear queens. For the past 6 years we have listed our Beekeeping internship on the NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Project Internship and Apprenticeships Web Site. Our Beekeeping Internship is a great …
Charlie Toth in Somerset, NJ has been making & selling 5-pound hard sugar-candy blocks for Honeybee winter feeding. He wraps his blocks in butcher paper. The best way to add a sugar candy block to the hive is as follows: Use only on hives where the cluster is in the …
We will be taking beekeeping internship applications for the 2013 season for an intern to assist us in all areas of our beekeeping business For the last five beekeeping seasons we have had the services of a young person interested in gaining experience in beekeeping. An extra set of willing …
The winter may be the most challenging time for honeybees in the northern climates. This winter has already thrown more at us than most years do. We try to prepare for typical weather events in advance by adding extra heavy blocks on tops, and solid bottoms below, plus feeding if …
FileMaker Pro Beekeeping Database – part #2 Listed below is an example of the type report we can generate from our FileMaker Pro Relational Beekeeping Database. This is post #2. You can see our first FileMaker Pro Beekeeping Database post at post#1. The following is an iPad screen capture from …
Our beekeeping operation record keeping has been moved completely over to a relational database located on an iPad. Since last season we have updated and improved the database so that Mary is comfortable using it in the field. So far this season Mary has added over a thousand records to …
SHIPPING HONEYBEE QUEENS Our queen rearing season has finally gotten into a rhythm. Coming into the spring we grafted our 1st session in April only to have the evening temperature drop to 28 degrees on the day we put out our 1st queen cells. Then we had a lot of …
Successful Honeybee Queen Introduction The first and most important factor in queen introduction is to have a queenless environment. No mated queens, no virgin queens and no queen cells should be present in the hive. Place the cage containing the queen into the queenless hive, just above the brood area. …
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