Setting up a queen right queen bank

Setting up bear fencing in the hills

Making splits with swarm cells in the same yard

A beautiful spot for a bee yard

Pulling off splits

Checking acceptance of grafts in the queen right starter/finishers set up 2 days ago

Watch as I set up a queenright starter finisher

Checking the starter for queenright after dropping a cell in 2 weeks ago

Trying out 72 hour queen cells

The Bees are giving me lemons, I'm making lemonade. Making decisions on the fly...

How I blend laying workers into a queen right hive.

How I deal with laying workers in the queen rearing yard...

setting up splits, and setting up for honey.

Catching, marking, and caging queens.

How I replace frames in the top box after splitting hives.

The results of splitting with small 3 frame nucs and swapping places 2 weeks later

how I make quick and easy splits to make queens...

Moving queen cell grafts from starter to finisher.

Checking graft acceptance

A short queen grafting session.

Splitting using small nuc colony and swaping places with packed hives.

Setting up a queenless starter part 2

setting up queenless starter part1

A look in hives. they are making honey and drones in almonds.

Queen wasp wintering between bee hives. Hive tool test!

Setting up breeder queen for grafting.

I'm placing thirds to give some room, and prepping to split soon.

How make inner covers with a feed sack.

Beekeepers do it in the rain, right side up lol

More bee work in the rain before loading out.