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Goals and Methods – part 1
Beekeeping has gotten a lot of media attention in recent years and interest in beekeeping has increased. In the last 5-10 years there has been an influx of new beekeepers, many with no previous experience in agriculture or animal husbandry. A … Continue reading
Posted in Methods, Posts
Tagged bait hive, bee, treatment free beekeeping, treatment-free methods
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Nuc Box Plans
A while ago I posted New Swarm Trap Plans. This post was about a set of plans for 4 traps out of ONE – 4 X 8 sheet of plywood. Sometime later a question was posed to me about the plans. … Continue reading
Posted in HowTo, Posts, Swarm Trapping
Tagged bee, Indiana Beekeeping, nuc box plans, Swarm Trap Plan
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Mouse Guards
Fall is coming quickly. Trees are already turning colors and we’ve experienced a couple cool nights. A form of selective pressure is on its way in the form of Winter. Many beekeepers are frantically checking their hives, fretting about varroa thresholds, … Continue reading
Chump Crickets part 2
If you haven’t read Chump Crickets part 1 from last week yet that would be a good place to start. For the rest of ya here IS WHY I AM SO EXCITED about these crickets! This is promising news for … Continue reading
Where Bees are…….
I have been trying to think about ways that new beekeepers can find locations to set swarm traps. I remember being new to this and how alien it all seemed that first year. Beekeeping was hard to “get into”. So … Continue reading
Posted in Feral Bees, HowTo, Posts, Swarm Trapping, What's going on..
Tagged bait hive, bee, beekeeping, feral bees, feral hives, Indiana beekepeing, swarm trap, swarm trapping
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Leave those traps out there…..
It’s July the 1st. Where has 2013 gone? I have done an extremely poor job keeping you up to date with the goings on around here. Swarming was muted a little in May due to cooler than normal temperatures and … Continue reading
Where your bees come from matters
This year overwintered colonies seem to reaffirm conclusions that I have suspected for a long period of time. Not all bees are created equal! This is two colonies from feral stock Easter weekend 2013. 1005 (Left) is one from 2010 … Continue reading
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
Posted in HowTo, Posts, What's going on..
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
Posted in Hive Reports, Posts, What's going on..
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
