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Here are photos from a trap-out that was started this morning. These bees were VERY gentle. I believe that they have been here under 72 hours, and are still in comb-building mode – as there were NO foragers exiting & returning.
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Here is the trap-out setup: Another update for the work on the house: 7/25/2012
7/26/2012
Only 6pm, and more painting prep to go for the evening. My motivation for getting the house repairs completed has been given an adrenaline shot. 7-19-2012:
7/20/2012
7/22/2012
7/23/2012
That said… I’m tired. It will be a long night finishing up today’s tasks – then tomorrow begins the work again.
Just a quick note to announce that followers of this blog can now subscribe to my blog, and receive instant updates whenever I update the Harmony Hollow Apiaries site. Thank You Be sure to take a looksee at the new face for Bohemian Utopia at BohemianUtopia.com. There’s still many updates and cleaning to be done… but it’s made it a long way! Rex I wanted to send a special shout-out and thank you to Kevin Inglin of Beekeeper’s Corner. Kevin noted this blog (and Harmony Hollow Apiaries) in Episode 31 of his podcast BKCorner. He also has a Facebook page HERE. I have yet to build the hive-stand of Kevin’s design – however, I do plan on doing so in the near future. (Possibly in the Fall or winter “rebuild time”) I’ll keep you tuned in and will post photos as soon as I have it built. On a separate note: My rescue line for the Dallas, Texas area will be inactive as of the end of June 2012. I will update the page to list only the line from our Tyler, Texas location. It was time to bump up 2 of my 5-frame nuc hives to 10-frame boxes. I waited until the rain had subsided to a slow drizzle, and fired up the smoker.. and moved 2 nucs to 10-frame deep hives with screened bottom boards. I believe that this will give the bees something to do besides sitting on the front porch.
Also – Note that we are now listed on LocalHarvest.com One of my 7 hives is bearding outside the 5-frame nuc. Temperatures here in North Texas are in the mid-to high 90’s right now (1st week of June 2012). Update on 6/6/2012… We’ve had about 4-inches of rain today… and the temps are down to 70 Deg F. The bees are STILL bearding – Holding out – under the board – whilst it’s raining all around them. I’ll check their hive tomorrow to see what’s going on. Strange subject line, eh? My oldest hive seems to have lost its queen over the last month or two. The brood boxes are full of honey and pollen.. and LOTS of drones… but not a single egg, larvae, or capped brood in 2 deeps and 2 supers. My latest captured swarm has filled out EVERY available newly waxed cell with eggs – so this evening, I took one of the new frames of eggs, and placed into the lower brood box of my original hive. I knocked down the bottom 1/3 of 7 or 8 of the cells in order to persuade them to create a new queen from one of the freshly laid eggs. I’m REALLY liking the last captured swarm.
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