On the homestead blog: yesterday we picked up and set up two nucs — nucleus bee hives, i.e. small starter hives. 🐝
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A deer walking in front of the beehives, with another behind. 🦌🐝
On the homestead blog: beehive split before they split. An unexpected intervention to avoid losing half of the yellow hive to swarming. 🐝
On the homestead blog: another inspection of the beehives, following up to last week. (With a bonus appearance of the chickens.) 🐝
On the homestead blog: second beehive inspection of 2020, to make some tweaks, and continue the mite treatments. 🐝
On the homestead blog: first beehive inspection of the year, with some bad news and some good news.
On the homestead blog: added top feeders to all beehives. 🐝
Happy to see our bees out and about (and still alive) as the weather warms up a bit. 🐝
It wasn’t in the forecast, but last night we had a little preview of snow, that is still lingering this morning. Expecting more next week. ❄️
Congratulations to Jenn for passing her exam (with 99%) and meeting the other qualifications. She is now a certified Apprentice Beekeeper!
