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You need some bees off your frame? Try Mr. Neil’s excellent Bee Flicking technique. Also a handy way to distract enemies should they surprise you in your bee yard. http://www.vimeo.com/29454801 No bees harmed in the making of this video and most were scooped up off the ground and gently placed back in. 
Dear Bees, I don’t want to get all Ned Stark on you, but Winter is coming. You are bees of summer and it’s been fun to fly around and explore, but seriously, dudettes, you need to start some serious storage to make it through the winter. See, this whole socializing and not storing [...] 
After having all of our beehives die this past winter, it’s so nice to finally have a warm spring day and look in to see bees industriously tending brood and filling up empty comb. Our Italian bees are filling up hives like crazy, but the Russians and Carniolans are at a slow and steady [...] 
Remember how we had 2 queen in one of our Russian hives? Well, they seemed to have sorted things out and the queen with the large white dot killed the newer queen with the small white dot. So, that solved itself. However, one of our other Russian hives is queenless–that queen was alive when we [...] 
This is Kelly McCullough, he came out with us to help hive four more packages of bees on Sunday. His family kept bees when he was kid and I have to say, he’s the first person I’ve ever seen get almost every single bee out of the travel cage. I can’t remember if it [...] 
I’m so bummed, I took video of Mr. Neil‘s first ever bee installation yesterday and I left the video card in my bee suit out at his house. Gr. I’ll have to get it on Sunday. We started our first great bee experiment this year. We’re going to have a total of 7 hives: [...] |
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