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This is the West hive today. I've seen each of the 3 hives busy now so I think they made it through the winter ok so I'll just have to see how much food they have left one of these days while it's sort of warm. Cooler and wet weather coming they say.
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The bees in the nuc hives on this cool and windy Sunday morning that was 57F or 14C when the video was recorded. I think the plan is to move the green bees into a 10 frame deep, and give the white nuc a top box since they started with fewer bees. The queens have only been laying for a week to ten days (hopefully) so a couple of weeks will reveal the new activity.
#beekeeping #NucHive #beehive #apiary #May18 #bees #bee #BeeVideo #BeeMovie #NucleusHive
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#Beckstein gerade bei #annewill, findet das #Aiwanger #Flugblatt blöd.
Nette Umschreibung eines verabscheuungswürdigen und ekelhaften #Antisemitismus.
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#Beckstein gerade bei #annewill, findet das #Aiwanger #Flugblatt blöd.
Nette Umschreibung eines verabscheuungswürdigen und ekelhaften #Antisemitismus.
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Busy bees, April 4, 2025. Pollen going in and I see some drones at the Center hive. The hybrid willows are blooming and full of bees, and the Norway Maples, sarvis berries, peaches, and plum will be blooming in a few days probably.
#beekeeping #bees #BeeVideo #apiary #bee #BeeMovie #April4 #WinterBees #BeeHive #pollinators
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A short video of the bees bringing in the pollen today. Lots and lots of pollen.
#beekeeping #bees #BeeVideo #BeeMovie #bee #beehive #HoneyBee #pollen #pollinators #March23
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Slow bees April 9, 2024.
They seem graceful at normal speeds.
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So, my one hive (Persephone) that I thought was lost then when I realized they were alive, so small I didn't think they would survive and had seen a mouse go in there in the winter.... IS BOOMING. I put a medium on top of the 2 deeps last spring to ward off a swarm before I could split and tried to move it today but honestly, all 3 boxes are full of bees. No mice in sight. Did not see drones yet but there was drone larva. They will have to hang in there a bit longer. Waiting for Queen cells, drones and good weather, then will probably get another double split this year. Phew.
The other 3 hives are doing well, I mean, like how hives should. Tidy, happy, lots of bees but not a tidal wave of bees when I take the lid off! Sheesh. They all have nice yellow saddle bags flying in, and one girl had something pinkish-red in her saddle bags so the pollen is coming in but I gave them good quality patties anyway. Four hives is my limit so I'll be selling the splits late this spring. 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
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So, my one hive (Persephone) that I thought was lost then when I realized they were alive, so small I didn't think they would survive and had seen a mouse go in there in the winter.... IS BOOMING. I put a medium on top of the 2 deeps last spring to ward off a swarm before I could split and tried to move it today but honestly, all 3 boxes are full of bees. No mice in sight. Did not see drones yet but there was drone larva. They will have to hang in there a bit longer. Waiting for Queen cells, drones and good weather, then will probably get another double split this year. Phew.
The other 3 hives are doing well, I mean, like how hives should. Tidy, happy, lots of bees but not a tidal wave of bees when I take the lid off! Sheesh. They all have nice yellow saddle bags flying in, and one girl had something pinkish-red in her saddle bags so the pollen is coming in but I gave them good quality patties anyway. Four hives is my limit so I'll be selling the splits late this spring. 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
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So, my one hive (Persephone) that I thought was lost then when I realized they were alive, so small I didn't think they would survive and had seen a mouse go in there in the winter.... IS BOOMING. I put a medium on top of the 2 deeps last spring to ward off a swarm before I could split and tried to move it today but honestly, all 3 boxes are full of bees. No mice in sight. Did not see drones yet but there was drone larva. They will have to hang in there a bit longer. Waiting for Queen cells, drones and good weather, then will probably get another double split this year. Phew.
The other 3 hives are doing well, I mean, like how hives should. Tidy, happy, lots of bees but not a tidal wave of bees when I take the lid off! Sheesh. They all have nice yellow saddle bags flying in, and one girl had something pinkish-red in her saddle bags so the pollen is coming in but I gave them good quality patties anyway. Four hives is my limit so I'll be selling the splits late this spring. 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
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So, my one hive (Persephone) that I thought was lost then when I realized they were alive, so small I didn't think they would survive and had seen a mouse go in there in the winter.... IS BOOMING. I put a medium on top of the 2 deeps last spring to ward off a swarm before I could split and tried to move it today but honestly, all 3 boxes are full of bees. No mice in sight. Did not see drones yet but there was drone larva. They will have to hang in there a bit longer. Waiting for Queen cells, drones and good weather, then will probably get another double split this year. Phew.
The other 3 hives are doing well, I mean, like how hives should. Tidy, happy, lots of bees but not a tidal wave of bees when I take the lid off! Sheesh. They all have nice yellow saddle bags flying in, and one girl had something pinkish-red in her saddle bags so the pollen is coming in but I gave them good quality patties anyway. Four hives is my limit so I'll be selling the splits late this spring. 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
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Sometimes a movie with Jason #Statham make you feel better with his unstoppable justice. #Beekeeper
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(and dodging a giant swarm of bees which has arrived and flown into some empty equipment here, once again 🤪 -- the bees are welcome, however, we just have to move them elsewhere here soon...) #beekeeping #freebees
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A swarm in May is worth a load of hay. #beekeeping #freebees
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The swarm moving in from start to finish, 20 minutes of video in 20 seconds.
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I looked at the bait hive this afternoon and there were a lot of bees behaving a bit odd there. The bait hive has been quiet for most of the week since I checked some of the hives a week ago. I put a camera up and when I was checking it later there was a swarm moving in! They say a swarm in July is not worth a fly, we'll see. Looking at the hive now you'd think it was just a few scout bees unless you paid attention.
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The bait hive was really active today with scouts...
The two hives that love propolis and have blocked any form of upper venting are quite numerous on the outside of their hives. There's a box of bees on the Center hive and not much less than that on what was the Green nuc which was started as a split 9 weeks ago with laying queen 7 weeks ago and got a honey super last week.
#beekeeping #BaitHive #BeeBearding #bees #apiary #SwarmTrap #June29 #SwarmInJune #SilverSpoon
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I put the gopro on the bait hive this afternoon for a few hours and sped through the footage and saw some scout bees. Almost exactly 24 hours after I put it in this spot.
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There has been a lot of bee activity at the bait hive this morning. When I first looked for the swarm up in the tree I thought it was gone but then I spotted it later but it seemed like maybe it was smaller. The branch wasn't bent down as much. Seems sorta like the bee swarm didn't have a plan or maybe they had found a migratory hive that was empty and it moved overnight. They're 50 feet, 15 meters, up in a tree so not much I can do about that.
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I added some plates to attach the bottom board for moving the nuc hives around and to stack them 2 deep for normal or use as a bait hive. I also added a traditional 'looks like a tree hole' feature to the entrance, put a piece of corrugated plastic sheet under the cover so they can't glue it down, and used some canopy bungee cords to hold down the cover. It's baited up and 5 heavy waxed frames in the top box.
#beekeeping #NucHive #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #diy #bees
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I took the new hive and I divided it vertically to make two 5-frame bait hives. I had a deep sized divider so I just made another one with the ability for the upper one to slot into it. It should work and I can put frames in the lower box too if I want to keep it divided this way for longer.
Now we wait for warmer, drier, less windy weather.
#beekeeping #bees #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #April8
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The bait hive, or swarm trap, is set. Lemongrass oil put on the cotton ball in a little plastic bag and it hangs between the first two frames. I rub propolis on all the top bar sides, and I rub saved comb wax from hive inspections that hasn't been rendered on all the foundations. I don't have extra brood comb to use.
This sits at about eye level behind my hives under a little pine tree.
#beekeeping #bees #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #April8 #apiary
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I don't think anything has actually moved into the bait hive. This seems like a scouting party that has been partying at the bait hive all weekend. There's more during the day but a dozen or so have been staying every night.
#beekeeping #bees #apiary #BaitHive #SwarmTrap #MastodonOnly
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The fire drill hive from yesterday isn't bearding today. The moved upper half is figuring out where the welcome sign is after flying to the old location. Both the empty hive and the bait hive have scouts checking things out.
I put a feeder on top of the fire drill hive too, there were bees at the screened inner cover hole.
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There's been a lot of activity in the last hour, and just now I see the lower half of the split is all in flight circling in the space above the hives... Maybe they're just have a bigger cleansing flight today.
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The excitement of seeing a single bee at the bait hive, that is probably the same single bee from yesterday.
There was a second one as I got ready to post this and I see it or another even at the other empty hive. First decently sunny and not windy day so far for a while. Lets hope it's not just my bees.
The darker bees from last week haven't been back so their hives probably got trucked off.
3 or more bees now as I finish typing this. 😃
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Saw a bee go in to the empty hive and waited for it to come out. I see on the video there was another in there too.
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I gave the empty hive a little visual indicator of a hole since I saw a bee checking out all the dark spots in the wood as it was flying around it.
This is a deep box with frames sitting on top of an empty medium super for some space. The hive is on top of the old single hive stand, which is sitting on top of the long hive stand.
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There has been activity at the bait hive this afternoon. It started with just one bee surveying inside and out and then I saw FIVE bees at once. 😀 Steady activity since noon.