If you read my post from earlier this morning, you understand I conducted a search for queen bees in my newly relocated hives. The weather was pretty nice with cool morning air. I chose to do it early in the…
Today, I will be getting into my hives, with one specific purpose. I need to find queens. In the image below, the two white boxes were once a single hive owned by my mentor. The one in the middle is…
Just an update, I bought a 10 frame beehive I have a friend who suggested that I did not need to buy anything, because he has plenty of equipment, but I wanted my first hive to be new. Since…
Getting a mentor We attended a beginning beekeeping class with the Colonial Beekeepers around 2012. But we were not in a position to start keeping bees and were not ready to do so. We are in different circumstances now, and…