Yeah, again! After the swarm there are at least 3 virgin queens roaming the colony: A solid gold one that is pretty much chill. She moves slowly and has very few bees in her retinue. The bees seem to pretty much ignore her. […]
I set up the same nurse hive that was at the farm and was used for Q4 with the cloak board. I had learned at the MSBA meeting this summer to be sure to put only capped brood in the box above the queen excluder and to shake all the […]
Well I’m bummed. I decided to pull my supers today. The process went fine. The fume board worked like a charm even though the juice is about three years old. I removed the third super which I put on about a month ago to be sure the hive wouldn’t swarm. […]
These posts are getting boring! Particularly as I can’t seem to load the pictures I’d like to! Anyway, it swarmed. Probably a really nice size swarm based on the density of bees remaining. I’d guess 5-6 lbs of bees left. Don’t know where they went. I’ve walked the neighborhood several […]
On Sunday June 28, Kristien set up the colony at the farm with the cloak board. Special attention was paid to have only capped brood in the cell finishing box and make sure all the open brood was in the bottom box. On June 30th, we met a Kristien’s and […]
On May 31st we met at Allen’s outyard, selected our queen rearing colony and set it up with the cloak board. On June 3rd, we grafted from the tailgate of Allen’s truck. Allen practiced on 5 cups and grafted 5 cups, Kristien grafted 15 and Liz grafted 10 […]
