To view these pictures full size, click on them. Click your browser’s back button to return to this page. Well, the weather finally got right (meaning a couple nights in a row where it didn’t go below 50 degrees) and we were able to go into the hives for our first look of the 2021 […]
This was the day we had been waiting for. It was finally time to pull some honey! All of the classes, preparation and waiting had finally come to an end. I lit the smoker, we suited up and went to the apiary. This is when I realized that one person simply doesn’t have enough hands to harvest honey and take pictures. My wonderful wife and bee keeper extraordinaire Cynthia, took care of the photo documentation duties.
Honey supplies can sometimes be really expensive. For example, a honey bucket with a gate (or what most people would call a spout) at the bottom, usually starts at around $35.00 if you buy them from the bee suppliers. I’m sorry, but I just can’t see paying that kind of money for a $3.00 bucket […]
Bees are interesting creatures and I just can’t go more than a few days without looking in on them. Today I walked by an observed a phenomenon called bearding. The bees usually try to keep the internal temperature of the hive around 96 degrees. Much warmer than that and the wax will start to melt. […]
{Click the pictures to see them larger & more detailed | click the back arrow to return here.} This was our first in-depth look into the hive this year. I did actually do some work earlier (I took the bagged sugar that we fed them over the winter off the hive) but I didn’t actually […]
As we kind of consider ourselves “bee foster parents” we will occasionally just poke our heads into the apiary and check on the girls from time to time (usually 4 to 5 times a week), sometimes more, sometimes less. We don’t actually go into the hive each time because we would just assume NOT to […]
This is the first time we have been able to take a peek inside the hive since we relocated our new “nuc” of bees to their new home last month. These photos show that the girls are beginning to pull comb. If you look closely, you can see the “bulge” above the actual flat foundation. […]
