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A Hint of Spring
Late winter flight Today the temperature got up to 57 degrees, the snow and ice began melting faster and faster, the ground got all mushy and the bees took flight! This is the first time I had seen any...
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The Queen is dead! Long live the Queen!
Here’s the story. Earlier this year I ordered a new queen to be delivered in June( from BeeWeaver in Texas) thinking that my old queen, now in her third year, would be replaced by her worker bees,...
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A Royal Success!
Bee larvae from new queen. It has been two weeks since the new queen emerged and today I not only got to see her ( so young and beautiful) but I saw all the new larvae she has produced. That means her...
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Royal portrait
Today I took my camera to the hive to see if the new queen would pose for her royal portrait. She wouldn’t stay still for long, so I had to photograph her as she quickly traveled across the comb,...
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Warm Spell
A new year…. a new bee season. The rare Rocky Mountain snow chicken made an appearance in January. Haha! It’s the second week of February and the temperatures have been in the 50’s and 60’s. Is winter...
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Hive inspection
After my last entry,(” Warm Spell” ) we did indeed have another cold spell with snow. Ah… Spring! It’s now getting warmer and nights aren’t as cold; temp today got up to 60 degrees but will drop down...
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Ssssss….summertime!
It’s been quite a while since I last posted. At that time it appeared that both queens had made it through the winter. Unfortunately the older queen wasn’t able to handle the drastic warm/cold swings...
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Hungry Bees!
Wow. It has been a while since I last posted. And you know why? Not much has happened to my hive. The colony went into winter strong and healthy, but I only harvested one bar of capped comb in early...
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Here come the drones!
Drone cells I took advantage of a nice mild early spring day to look in the hive to see how things were going, and saw this group of drone cells. Drones are the male honeybees that develop from...
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Queen Cell !
Queen Cell I haven’t written much about my bees this summer because, well…. there really hasn’t been much to write about! It was a very dry Spring and early Summer but it really didn’t seem to affect...
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