bees


her majesty

Published by in bees on June 3rd, 2012

no, this isn’t a post about the Queen and Her Jubilee celebrations this week in London…although i was quite impressed with the glorious pageantry that the royal family put on the river thames today. i’m talking about our queen bee. i checked the third hive today and found larvae right away – they bees and

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we’ve got babies!! (update: and bear)

Published by in bees, farm on May 23rd, 2012

a week and a half after finding themselves traveling from Georgia to the western hills of PA, our bees have settled into their new homes and are already busy making babies. we opened the hives this evening and pulled out two of the busiest frames from each hive (the ones covered with the most bees).

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honeybees, take 2

Published by in bees, earthkeeping, farm on May 10th, 2012

our two packages of honeybees arrive at the post office this morning. at 6:35 a.m. the post office called to tell us they were in. i had been up for an hour already, and suspected we’d be hearing from them this morning. the boys finally woke up around 8:15, and by 9:00 we were in

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