Posts Tagged “Home is where the hive is”
Sas and I are moving out of the big city, to the outlying burbs. And where the peeps go, the bees must follow. Because I have to check them every week, its a wise idea to have them close by. So on a Friday evening, I waited until they had all come home for the night, snuck […]
Spring has long been one of my 4 favourite seasons. Now as a beekeeper, Ive got 10,000 new reasons to look forward to the season. March usually gets warm enough to be able to open the hive, and see how the bees survived winter. There needs to be enough winter bees to cluster together and […]
Sadly when the bees swarmed last weekend, collected and put back in the box, the queen was lost. I can’t be certain how she was lost, but this is no time for mourning. The important thing now she’s gone is to get a queen into the hive. There are a few methods to re-queen a […]
Things have been happening pretty fast in the hive this week. The lovely Spring weather (if not a little late) has made the population boom! in the colony – and the bees have also been growing new queens. New queens are good if you want another hive and it’s the natural way the colony reproduces. […]