This past Friday and Saturday Mary sold additional Carniolan and Russian Winter Nucs. Then on Sunday we moved out some of our Winter Nucs hives to a new property, then hived a swarm and finally finished putting together additional mediums. Bringing in a Nuc box for a Winter Nuc pickup Three … Read more
This past week we hived a swarm which had taken residence in an old steamer trunk located on a porch. We spent about 2 hours carefully cutting and moving the new comb from the under the top of the trunk. About an hour into our work we found the queen and put her into a … Read more
What with all of the rain we have had this spring, ideal conditions are present for bees to swarm. They have been unable to fly for many days in a row while producing brood and feeling crowded so the next good sunny day they take off. Some seasons we are just not able to prevent … Read more
This afternoon we ended another busy week with Mary climbing a ladder to retrieve a swarm near one of our yards. Since the evenings have been cold and damp and the days have been getting rain a number of hives have swarmed. Earlier in the week at an apple orchard where we have bees Mary found … Read more
Mary was working in the breeding yard with our intern while I was putting together deeps by the honey house – Mary later recounted the roar they heard coming from Hive #107. In a few minutes the swarm landed in a small tree about 100 feet away from its original hive. Within a half hour … Read more