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Category Archives: Mites
Productive High!
Timeline Just to give you a sense of how fast this queen is on top of her game, her production is growing exponentially. And by that I mean brood as well as collecting nectar and honey. That would make sense … Continue reading
Posted in beekeeping, Check-ups, Mites, Queen, Spring, Uncategorized
Tagged beekeeping, Mites, queen cells, Swarm
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Spring Inspection and Updates!
It’s about to get real beesy here. I’m buzzing with updates, a new discovery, movie reviews and a quiz to get us started on a new season of beekeeping in pretty Victoria, BC. Update #1: We went into the winter … Continue reading
Posted in Mites, Spring, Uncategorized
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Pesty Beesness
Hello 2020! I thought I’d write about a topic that keeps coming up at the beekeeper meetings and one that I’ve avoided mostly because my mom takes care of the dirty work. This year, however, my mom needed to borrow … Continue reading
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Sugar Shake Test
Bee inspection time! We want to sell a few nucs so we called up the bee inspector to take a peek and run a sugar shake test to check for mites. So here’s my first time watching the shake get … Continue reading
We sold two nucs!
It’s only June and it’s bee’n a beesy summer! The summer has started early this year with consistent sunshine and little rain. And the honey has just bee’n flowing in like no other year. But before we get to the … Continue reading
Posted in AFB, Bee inspector, Business, Mites
Tagged bee inspector, bee prepared, bee sales, beekeeping, bees, queen bee
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End of the Summer Season
It’s funny how the “back to school” cringe that many of us feel at the end of August is often accompanied with bad weather. Suddenly it seems as though summer is over. I wake up to hear fog horns reminding … Continue reading
Posted in Check-ups, Drones, Fall, Mites, Pollen
Tagged beekeeping, bees, drones, feeding bees, Mites, Pollen
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