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Category: Bees
Cool
I feel like I didn’t accomplish much today… They weren’t very physical, I guess! I started to scan some of the old family photos… after figuring out the best way to do it, it went fairly fast. Scanning at a higher dpi slowed the process down extensively, so I didn’t. I imagine I may regret…
Bee Friends
I was supposed to help ride today… It’s time to kick the cows out onto pasture! But… some-bee-dy interfered! I *had* to finish my beehive I started making because I bought TWO, yes, two packages of bees last night. I was extremely lucky to have three friends stop by to help! I wouldn’t have got…
Top Bar Hive Refurbished
My new bees will be coming Thursday (maybe… a blizzard is predicted for tomorrow, so we’ll see if that slows him down). Newbees, happy dance! Newbies! La la la… So, I’m refurbishing Messopotamia, my secondhand top bar hive… and since it’s all pretty now, I think I’ll have to rename it! There were holes in…
Honey Tales
There’s wildflowers out. A few yellow bells, some white phlox, and by my garage, even some dandelions. Yippee! I know I didn’t use to cheer dandelions, but I do now. In February, my bees were happy. In March, they were humming right along. I went to check them last week… and… sigh… Messopotamia was gone. …
Ten Things You Don’t Know About: Honey Bees
1. First of all, and this is the one I want you to know for sure… Although there are 4,000 (!) species of bees in North America, the honey bee is NOT native to North America. Some list the date of 1622 for honey bees’ first arrival in North America. They are an invasive, though…
Bee Food
With the warm weather, I’ve checked on my bees some more. Funny how I think it is HOT, and I drive to the Bee Barn and the thermometer inside says it’s only in the high 40˚’s. I think since it is inside and shaded, it takes a bit more to warm up. Since the bees…
Happy Girls
Bummer. Everyone has had a cold around here, after the nasty crud in December, and the flu over Christmas… and I thought, knock on wood, that it might just pass me by. Nope. I got it. It’s been a horrid cold and flu season around here, hitting people in this community very hard. Actually, I…
Beeswax Rocks (How to process combs into wax)
I ended up babysitting last night… and I knew I was supposed to… so why didn’t I post before??? I don’t know. But when I got home at 2:30 am… there was just NO WAY I was posting! I was even awake enough to read before going to bed… how strange is THAT? As an…
Honey Harvest from My Top Bar Hives
Before we get to the honey… We vaccinated our just weaned calves today… I took the easy job of running them up the alleyway, and let the boys give the shots! I only took one photo today, and that was of our pinkeye calf. Cattle get pinkeye just like humans… usually starting with some irritation…
Tease
Today was a busy and long day. It began with a little of this.. Then it included this… Followed by hours at this… But the best part of today??? This… Am I a tease or what????
To Bee at Summer School
This morning I hosted Ten Sleep’s summer school on a field trip. Their focus is on… bees! I decided I could help with that! First was a talk on my lawn… where we looked at new and old comb and dead bees and brood comb and drone comb and had a bite of my honey……