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 […]
{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 […]
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. […]
This was the day we’ve prepared for. We took the bee keeping course. We built the apiary. We ordered, built and painted the hive. We ordered the bees. We ordered the feeder and protective gear. We made the sugar water. We pick up the bees today! I made the 9:00 a.m. appointment at the Eclectic […]
Now that we have the site for the apiary completed, it’s time to build the actual hive. As you may remember (if you have read our blog), Santa hooked us up with a complete hive kit from Mann Lake Ltd. The kit came nicely boxed with everything we needed to construct the hive (a bottom […]
As we live in a neighborhood, I was concerned about having to cut grass around the new hive,and was wondering if cutting grass around them would in anyway provoke or irritate the bees. When I asked this question at the Central Alabama Beekeeper Association, the short answer was “No, the bees don’t care if you […]
