Category: Bees
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Hive Report 4/12/26
I didn’t take any photos at this inspection, but I tried a new thing where I set up my phone camera and dictated what was happening while recording a video. It’s really hard to manipulate my phone for photos and voice memos while I’m wearing bee gloves. Maybe when I’m more experienced and switch to…
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Hive report 3/22
I did my first full inspections of the year this weekend and observed some interesting things. The north hive is large and feisty (so feisty, in fact, that we had a bit of a mishap a couple weeks ago that I will not recount here). This is heartening, since this is also the hive that…
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Hive Report 2/28/26
I have been looking forward to today since I spotted the predicted high of 60 in the forecast a week or so ago. Alas, I have not been feeling well and wasn’t able to enjoy my visit to the bees as much as I’d hoped. But, the bees! They are buzzing! The north hive was…
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Hive report 2/21/26
It’s once again hovering right around 50F and kind of sunny today! I wanted to check in with the bees while they might be out, especially because of the fiasco I discovered last week. To recap: the top cover, insulation, and moisture board had, at some point, blown off the north hive. There were still…
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Hive Report 2/14/26
The high today was 51F, the warmest it’s been in weeks! We had a pretty big snowstorm a couple weeks ago, which kicked off a long cold spell. I was worried about the bees, since I knew they’d likely be working through the fondant I gave them for winter feed. The last time it was…