Category: Beekeeping
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2024 Hive Designs
This season I will attempt a few hive designs that model “wild” hives, mirroring and taking inspiration from the warré hive model. I’ve designed a few boxes that will utlitize two to three different sizes of frame and thus comb, each box is hexagonal to mimic a tree trunk, but using flat corners will gave…
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Late Season Queen-rearing
July 10 2023 I’ve never attempted a full queen rearing cycle, it’s extremely time intensive and sensitive, deadlines are very punctual. While I may not have the bandwidth to attempt to produce over 20 queen bees on my own, I should be able to apply some of the same technical concepts to raise queens in…
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First round applying formic pro and caging queens on top box
June 26 2023 I’m hoping to abate the adverse effects of formic pro on my queens by caging them and putting them in the very top box of the hive. I figure this is easier than caging her in-frame where she’ll be exposed to the formic strips. I’m doing this at a couple of apiary…
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Pollinator’s Perspective of an Atmospheric River
April 30th 2023 I found the first atmospheric river of this year to be exciting, I love to get knee deep in a chaotic and dangerous weather event, but this third one is making me a little concerned. All these downed trees have me thinking about pollinator habitat. Tree experts and arborists described the atmospheric…