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I’m still alive….
Once again I have allowed a lull in posting. I want to explain myself since the busiest part of my beekeeping season is NOW and I haven’t posted at all. It is not that I have lost interest in the … Continue reading
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3/7/13 Prediction Number 1
I do not know what caused it yet, but I am relatively sure at least one hive has expired. 1001 was one of my first two colonies. I bought it as an established hive from a beekeeper that was going … Continue reading
Posted in Cutouts, Experiments, Hive Reports, Posts, What's going on..
Tagged beekeeping, Indiana Beekeeping
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Winter organization with paracord
This is the bottom drawer of our Entertainment Center. It is the one place in the house I am allowed to keep my current reading materials. How many beekeepers out there have a pile of bee literature laying around like … Continue reading
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Tagged bee, beekeeping, Indiana Beekeeping, Jason Bruns, paracord, records
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3 Hives Visited
Checked in on three hives Thursday 2/7/13. They were observed at about 11:30. The outside temperature was 45 degrees F. There was activity from only one of the three colonies. A steady stream of bees came and went from 1005, … Continue reading
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Tagged bee, beekeeping, Indiana Beekeeping, Overwintering
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Weather makes my schedule
Last week marked another period of sustained cold weather. In the last week and a half or two there have been night-time lows near zero degrees F. We also have had a couple of days peppered in there where it … Continue reading
Winter work continues
On the list for 2013 is getting a bunch more hive equipment ready. Thanks to the strength of the honey sales from fall 2012 more deeps and supers could be purchased without going into the RED. Due to all of … Continue reading
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Tagged beekeeping, foundationless frames, Indiana Beekeeping
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2013 begins
A new year and an entirely different ballgame. In my last post way back on December 20th I posed the question Where the heck is the cold weather? Someone must have been listening because that question has been answered. We … Continue reading
Posted in Hive Reports, Posts, What's going on..
Tagged Indiana Beekeeping, treatment free beekeeping
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December Dandelions?
While taking a walk with my family a couple of weeks ago I noticed a blast from the past. Dandelions blooming in December? Strange as it may be, there they were. I snapped a picture. They didn’t look very spunky, … Continue reading
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Tagged bee, beekeeping, Indiana Beekeeping, phenology
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Breaking wind
The weather has been really pleasant for December here in Eastern Indiana. We have experienced some cold nights, but there haven’t been any extended cold weather periods. Most of the hive sites provide the hives some natural cover from North and … Continue reading
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Tagged bee, Indiana Beekeeping, Overwintering, treatment free beekeeping
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The Anxiety of Winter
There hasn’t been much activity on the blog the last several weeks. I have been readying for winter, but still have been checking bee related things regularly. Though it is not quite officially winter yet the winter anxiety has begun … Continue reading
Posted in Hive Reports, Posts, What's going on..
Tagged bee, feral bees, Indiana Beekeeping, treatment free beekeeping
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