Tag: spring beekeeping
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Hive report 5/15/26
Two main observations of note: I saw the queen in the south hive. I did not see signs that this colony requeened after I gave them a new frame of brood. She’s still in there laying, but I still saw one or two cells with 2-3 eggs in them and a few that were off…
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Hive report 5/3/26
This afternoon I had a ticket to see the poet Kate Baer in conversation with some of my favorite booksellers at a bakery downtown. Since I’d already made it clear to my family that I’d be leaving for a few hours, I decided to tack on a little visit to the cemetery apiary after getting…
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Hive report 4/23/26
South Hive I was really curious to see what was going on in here, since I’d seen a queen on 4/12, but not many eggs. There were more bees than I saw at the last inspection, and they were covering more frames. Here’s what else I noticed North Hive I was so curious to see…
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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…