Birdchick

We did a honey harvest last week. One of the challenges with that is getting all of the bees safely out of the honey supers so you aren’t carrying a few thousand angiry bees back when you go to extract the honey from the frames.  We’ve tried a few things to get bees out of honey supers to [...]

Last summer we had 7 hives: 2 carniolans, 2 Italians and 3 Russians. We had some bumps in the road and had to combine a couple of the Russians and went into the winter with 6 hives. We checked today to see who was alive with high hopes on the Russian bees since they are [...]