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Month: July 2011

The Beehive Soap Opera Continues…

July 25, 2011 Marg

Well, when we “tuned in” last Friday to Days of Our Hives – Margaret and I had just gone through…

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Hive Inspection 7/22

July 24, 2011 Marg

Well, it’s official, our hive has a major problem. We looked in our hive on last Friday, and as Rob…

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Filed under: Summer

Piping Queens

July 11, 2011 Marg

This whole swarming story leads us up to today, that is Sunday, July 10. I visited the hive this afternoon…

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Filed under: Queen, Summer

Mistakes, Luck, and New Queens.

July 10, 2011 Marg

As Margaret put in her post, this last Thursday, July 7th, our hive swarmed. It would have been a pretty…

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Filed under: Queen

Swarm!

July 7, 2011 Marg

Our bees swarmed this morning. We had been wondering if they would as we had seen swarm cells in the…

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Filed under: Swarming

Queen Cells, Stings, and Mite Counts!

July 3, 2011 Marg

28 June After I got back from Colorado, we checked the bees again this last Tuesday, the 28th. One of…

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Filed under: IPM, Queen, Summer

Mom, Marg, and the bees

Marg

22 June On the 22nd Susan came by to do some gardening and helped Margaret open the hive – the…

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Bees everywhere!

Marg

19th June It’s been a few weeks since we’ve posted – I was out of town last week, visiting my…

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Pessimistic Bees! NPR on Bees!

Marg

This has been in the news lately. Something about this makes me laugh – shaken bees have a negative cognitive…

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Filed under: Science

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