A BEE thread....for those interested in beekeeping.

[NevadaRon]

Very cool, Julie!

 

[theron]

I bought a pot of hyacinth flowers at the garden show last week and planted them today. My honey bees found them before I even got them in the ground. It was a beautiful day for mid March with temperatures in the lows 60s. Hyacinths are not due to bloom in this area for another few weeks, so this was a real treat for the bees.

Very cool! Were you wearing your bee keeper suit or are your bees friendly enough not to wear it?

 

[sgtmom52]

Very cool! Were you wearing your bee keeper suit or are your bees friendly enough not to wear it?

No suit ~ usually honey bees will not be aggressive when they are away from their hive. This garden is about 300 feet away from my hives.

 

[heritagebirds]

I missed the class this winter and didn't get signed up for a package. Guess I'll try next year.

 

[sgtmom52]

I missed the class this winter and didn't get signed up for a package. Guess I'll try next year.

There are a lot of packages still available out there. These people have packages for pick up in White Hall, MD. I am getting 6 from them on March 30th. http://www.snydersapiaries.com/products-services/

 

[havi]

I missed the class this winter and didn't get signed up for a package. Guess I'll try next year.

I dont plan on buying a package. I plan to get a swarm and start from there. If anything I might have to requeen.

 

[havi]

Anyone on here that keeps top bars?

 

[sgtmom52]

If you are a beekeeper in the Unites States ~ Please consider taking the "Bee Informed Partnership" Winter Loss and Management survey. It is open now through April 15th. It is very important in helping to determine what causes winter loss and how to prevent it.

http://beeinformed.org/

 

[happyhensny]

Our bees are flying today!! Yeah!

 

[NevadaRon]

Congratulations happyhensny!

We've had unusually warm weather here for the last half of March, so mine started flying a couple of weeks ago. Last Sunday I did my first inspection of the year. They had the inner cover pretty well glued down. When I finally got it up, I saw that they had built some comb between the inner cover and the top of the top super. It had a little honey in it and a whole boatload of juveniles were feeding on it. I got this hive last spring (so I'm a newb) and I was wondering if this means I should be putting one (or more) honey supers on it? Is it too early for that? I just ordered a floating feeder. I've been enjoying this so much I'm ready to get another hive this year!