🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[5Australorpasaures]

Not one mite in all 3 hives! Queens are laying nicely, honey and pollen over packed brood frames, me so very happy! Now I can hold treatment till the temp steadies below 80 and give them a Formic Pro treatment as a matter of course.

 

[Sally PB]

When we checked the honey super, we also looked into the New Bees. Which we call the Newbies, haha. Fantastic looking! Nice arch of honey/pollen above lots of eggs, young brood, and capped brood.

The queen in our original hive (we just have two) was named Charlotte by my husband. So that hive is The Charlatans.

 

[drstratton]

Not one mite in all 3 hives! Queens are laying nicely, honey and pollen over packed brood frames, me so very happy! Now I can hold treatment till the temp steadies below 80 and give them a Formic Pro treatment as a matter of course.

That's awesome. I think we're going to wait until after the buckwheat, depending on our next mite check, then use formic. We have oxalic acid pads in our boxes right now and will continue with that.

 

[drstratton]

When we checked the honey super, we also looked into the New Bees. Which we call the Newbies, haha. Fantastic looking! Nice arch of honey/pollen above lots of eggs, young brood, and capped brood.

The queen in our original hive (we just have two) was named Charlotte by my husband. So that hive is The Charlatans.

It's always such a good feeling when everything is looking good!

Love the names!

 

[5Australorpasaures]

When we checked the honey super, we also looked into the New Bees. Which we call the Newbies, haha. Fantastic looking! Nice arch of honey/pollen above lots of eggs, young brood, and capped brood.

The queen in our original hive (we just have two) was named Charlotte by my husband. So that hive is The Charlatans.

Sounds like you're in good shape. Naming bees? Let's see you come up with about roughly a HUNDRED FOURTY THOUSAND more. I have named mine collectively The Crew. When I get whacked, which is rare, I have all kinds of colorful names for that one even though it's my fault, under my breath of course.

 

[Sally PB]

A neighbor said she saw a honeybee on one of her flowers and asked if she was one of mine...? (Only beekeeper with a few miles.) I jokingly said, Yeah, I was wondering where number 47389 was!