Casa de Babas

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Round 3

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bought two nucs from Ian Coulson today. He and Marja delivered them to the house. I have decided to give Langstroth hives a chance. I paid $...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Sugar Roll Mite Check

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Went into Gibson's Hive this afternoon. Did a sugar roll test with 1/2 cup bees. Did not see any mites. Also used a capper to destroy ab...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

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Went into the hives this afternoon and everything looks good. All three hives have lots of capped brood. Larva present as well. Each hive ha...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

Dead out

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It's a sad day in the apiary. I lost Lone Star. I was worried about them last time I visited. They just weren't thriving. Not enou...
Monday, June 06, 2016

Bombus!

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This lovely big fat black and yellow bumble bee was working our California poppies hard yesterday! Maybe a bombus californicus!

5/23/16 Inspection

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Things are looking very good! Lots of activity.  Foragers headed into both hives loaded with pollen! Raven: Went all the way through and f...

4/18/16 Lots of action

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Went into both hives and did an oxalic acid dribble. Took one bar of larva from Lone Star and put it in Raven just to increase their chances...

4/15 Hive Inspection

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Tom came to help me and we went though Raven. Lots of honey, lots of drones, no worker brood, no larva. It looks like the queen is gone. Dam...
Saturday, April 09, 2016

Checking on Lone Star

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Went half way through Lone Star today and everything looks good. I started with 27 bars, and added one more before I closed her up. Lots o...
Saturday, February 27, 2016

Raven Hive Inspection

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Went almost all the way through Raven today. I had 24 bars, with one on the opposite side of the follower board where the feeder was. It had...
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