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I went to the neighbors to treat her bees. I didn’t treat them. She has no brood, not one little cell with one little baby. This is her second loss of a queen this year. It’s too late to do anything this year. This is her first year with bees, all her frames are new. She had terrible...

I know I am late, but I finally got my first oxalic treatment done. The weather has not been cooperating with me. Now that I have done one treatment, I find I might have been over cautious looking for the perfect day. I have not been in my hives for a while. They are amazing this again...

I saw her a few weeks ago. She is doing great. Or was it’s time to go into the hive again. I also gave some brood to a neighbor that had lost her queen. She had a mess. The workers were piling honey comb everywhere in no order. She had no brood at all. I have to check and see if hers...

I spun out my medium and shallow frames today. The bees seem to think they should take the honey back. I have a screen on the front of my sugar shack, the old garage I do honey and syrup in. The screen was solid bees. I got about 8 gallons of honey.

That was on June 26th I was queenless and had no eggs. Today I have a queen and lots of brood. I moved across three frames of brood. I did not move a queen cell, or think I did. I have tons of bees and all ages of broods. As strange as it sounds I am wondering if the new queen was on her...

I looked them up. It appeared to me they attract other insects too. And May not attract bees. I hope. I have not seen any here. Yet

I never heard of them before.

I had a queenless hive last Monday. I moved eggs across from the other hive. The queenless hive has laid away a ton of honey. Hopefully they will be strong enough for winter. The swarm trap hive is empty again. The other hive seems to be going strong. I am not going to get as much honey as...

I just got home this afternoon. Good time to sit by the AC and look out the windows.

I had to fix my fence, I was worried it would no longer keep a bear away. With as much damage as the bear have been doing around here, I have been lucky to get this late into the summer with a visit. So I converted my old turkey fence into a bee and bear fence. I turned the fence up and...

I use a smoker, but I am not sure why. They seem to be a bigger pain than they should be. I went into my bees today. One hive is going crazy, super patterns and all. I saw my yellow dotted beauty today. But she worried me. Here is why. Most of the frames were like the one below...

And have you ever wondered what happens when you have a wardrobe malfunction while working with your bees? For the record it hurts.

Mine is so crusted up I end up leaving it open most the time.. and barely shut when I am using it.

I think I might be. Not by choice. I looked in them today. Both hives have brood. But the one has no eggs. Some of the brood are pretty small. And not covered. But I would have felt better had I seen eggs or a gob of yellow paint.

I hope so, it’s all about getting enough time.

I can’t it’s not my bees,

It looked too big to be a drone cell to me when compared to the others. But it didn’t look like a queen cell either.

Does this cell bother anyone? That looks like an awfully large drone cell.

Last years queen? Maybe

But in this photo it looks like uncapped brood. So. I don’t know..