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Beekeeping in 2011
Beekeeping in 2011 was an interesting endeavor for new and experienced beekeepers alike… For starters the bees “season” was delayed due to the cool weather. New packages of bees weren’t delivered until May (normally this would happen no later than [...]
What can you do to help bees?
Members of PSBA educating on bees at the West Seattle Sustainability Fest, June 5, 2010. Yesterday I spent the afternoon at the West Seattle Sustainability Festival, in the Puget Sound Beekeepers booth. Our club was there selling our club’s honey [...]
Hive Update June 2010
You may have noticed in my twitter feed that my latest check of my 4 hives has yielded some sad news- 2 hives dead, 1 has a laying worker. The remaining hive is well, but is the one I started [...]
Pics from Summer 2009
Here’s some great pics by Dan Cole: Ada Cole and I visiting the Admiral Hive. View more of the pictures at Dan’s site- here Pointing at the queen! My Favorite shot:
Another season under my beekeeping belt…
Not many blog entries this year, but attempted “tweeting” as a way of recording my hive activities and passing along other tidbits of info on beekeeping. (See tweet feed on right side of this screen). Feel free to follow me [...]
New Season of bees
I again have 4 hives this year, didn’t have any survive last winter…which is my #1 goal this coming year. I left plenty of honey for their winter food but I dont think there were enough bees to cluster and [...]
I’m a lazy beekeeper
well, not really, I am behind on my chores though. Primarily due to not having enough equipment put together to manage 4 hives. I scheduled the extractor rental for the last weekend in october. I need to go by my [...]
Moving of hives
This past weekend my beekeeping mentor moved his hives to his new residence…but not without assistance, which I truly owed him due to all his help to me. However, since I was recouping from recent surgery, the only assistance I [...]
Cool link
http://www.vanishingbees.com/great little film and information on ccd and the state of our bees. check it out.
