I Explain Why The Big Blue Tarp Under and Around My Bee Hives

No More Hard Inner Lids For Me. Going to Try a Soft Inner Lid This year and See How it Goes.

Repositioning Bee Hives I realize I made a tactical error positioning the hives-Found a sunnier spot

Beekeeping Mistakes Not to Make in Spring

Choose Hive Location Wisely Here Are Some Things To Consider When Locating and Positioning Bee Hives

Putting New Bees Into Old Gear. Cleaning Old Beehive Equipment to Get Ready For New Bee Colonies

I'm Back. Bees are ordered property is secured - Lets keep some bees!

Getting Winter Ready

Plan for 2021, giving away bees in 2022 and a brief but enjoyable Y-ou T-ube R-ant

Finding Queen Venus

Honey Super and Brood Box Inspection + Removing Spring Mite Treatment

Add a Honey Super to Venus. Queen Producing Well So I Use some of Her Resources To Help Another Hive

The Risk When Queen Marking. I Probably Killed the Queen Trying to Mark Her. Inspection and Plan

Installing Spring Mite Treatment on Exploding Box & Surprise Dog Assault

first check in 2021 of my late season split from 2020

First inspection 2021

First Time Marking a Queen!

April 10 and bees are bringing in a ton of Pollen

My Stingless Streak for 2021 is over in 0 Days!

Two Hives Strong - One Clinging to Life in Mid March. I Emergency Feed all 3 Hives

Always Look For the Queen on the Lids!!

Checking Winter Food Stores. One last chance to see how bees are doing heading into winter

2nd week of Nov wellness check. Hot weather and the bees take full advantage.

Wrapping & feeding bees for winter. End of Oct time to feed hard candy & wrap insulate & vent hives

FEED FEED FEED YOUR BEES. in Fall Topping Off Feeder in October

Making Sugar Water. Quick review of how to make 2:1 Sugar water to Feed Bees in Fall

Using a fume board to move bees out of a honey box. Time to condense this strong hive into one box

Finding two queens in the same hive - never happened to me before. What to do next?

Mite Drop at 2 days after treatment. Bottom Board Check to see if mite treatment is working

I split Queen Elizabeth and QE II at Sunset