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How to Catch Swarms – Treatment-free Beekeeping Podcast

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Jason

Listen to the Treatment-free Beekeeping Podcast episode where I talk about catching swarms: Swarming is nearly upon us in Indiana, so I’m re-posting a link to the Treatment-Free Beekeeping Podcast – How to Catch Swarms with Solomon Parker.

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Swarm Trapping on the Survival Podcast – air date 9/31/2013

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Jason

Swarm Season is approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, I can see that interest in the subject is growing from my Stats.  In the coming weeks I will be talking about some podcasts I have been on about Bees.  They will be … Continue reading →

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Ain’t no party like a wax moth party

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Jason

This deep of Lang frames looked like an Adam’s Family Accordion.  It’s a sign of allowing something to happen that should have dealt with a long time ago.  This colony was struggling last fall and I thought it had lived long enough … Continue reading →

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Robbing 3 –> Obtain ferals and LetMBee

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Jason

If you’re reading this and you haven’t read Robbing can teach us about honeybees or Robbing – 2: What do you do? you might want to start there.  Just to summarize, last time I came home from work to a robbing episode.  Two colonies were being … Continue reading →

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Holes – in perfectly good woodenware

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Jason

I have had many questions about the 1 inch holes pictured in my deep hive bodies. When I began keeping bees I bought a bunch of used equipment from a keeper who was retiring. He had holes in some of his equipment, … Continue reading →

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Predictions, and what happens

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Jason

Early this year I attempted a prediction on a colony overwintering. see Animal Husbandry – Understanding Vigor 2016-02-05. In the post I was comparing 1512 and 1514. I stand by the observations, 1512 had less vigor than 1514. HOWEVER, even … Continue reading →

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2016 Trapping Update

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Jason

It’s time to give a little progress report for summer 2016. This year has been the most successful trapping summer YET. The first swarm was caught almost A FULL MONTH earlier than normal on 4/20/2016. HITS occurred steadily 3-5 per week … Continue reading →

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Because of honeybees

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Jason

Trapping bees has given me an opportunity to witness some interesting things over the years. It’s easy to get preoccupied with the beekeeping and forget to mention some of the other things I have seen just because I was OUTSIDE MORE due … Continue reading →

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Letting things happen

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Jason

I normally don’t post on Saturday’s, but I figured I’d switch it up this week since I had a post every other day. I won’t be talking Swarm Trapping today. What I want to go over has more to do with beekeeping … Continue reading →

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Getting it done

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Jason

If you want to be successful in beekeeping you’re going to have to put some work in. Reading or looking around on the Internet is only scratching the surface. The real work starts once you have bees and are dealing with … Continue reading →

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