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people are just starting to un wrap the hives around here. from winter. another week or two and will un-wrap ours.

not yet, my bees are a few hours away and i did not have time to find out the cause, will do when am back up there in a few weeks.

well checked my hives a few days ago, Bad winter here, lost quite a few hives, guess this years plan is to split, split and split.

well to be fair you can pet your bees, not sure if its a good idea but you could in theory haha

i run Carolinian bees, got them from a local breeder who is also showing me the ropes on bee keeping.

i noticed that my local peavey mart (pretty much tractor supply) has bees from new Zealand for sale this spring you can order.

interesting, that is kind of crazy you can only ship queens by plane but not packages.

i still can not get over the first time i heard that you can ship bees in the mail. it just blew me away that you can ship bees.

Thank you very much! i will have to check it out. i had such a hard time finding them a year or two ago. (or i just did not look very good haha)

up here i have never seen plants for sale on amazon (Canada version) also i don't think we can bring plants over the border due to invasive species laws and protections.

i will have to search again as last time (about a year ago) they where sold out every where i wanted to get them from.

oh i never looked up Russian olives or autumn olives just assumed we could not grow them here. but sun chokes we can grow here just hard to find for sale.

no way! i never knew we could grow olives in north America (or a type of olive) that is. but then again am on the cold prairies and my bees are by the boreal forest. we don't get tropical plants here to grow.

I don't think it will grow near my bees then, as there right next to the boreal forest, last time i checked it was zone 3a or b but really cool, as i never knew olives grew here (or a type could)

not quite sure what a autumn-olive is. but if it produces a berry am sure it will be good for them. ours have raspberries, blue berries and saskatoon berries (all wild) and we planted a bunch of haskaps, apples and planning on a few plum trees this year for them. i too have looked into...

that is somewhat like what we have in my province, we register with the province but there more worried about where you get your bees from, then we tell them every year through an online system how many hives we have or lost and that seems to be it.

there can be too many bees in an area, where am located my mentor said he would put around 60 hives in my location with no worry of over harvesting the nectar and pollen in area.

i am not familiar but i will have to check it out. am from Saskatchewan and for some odd reason we get a ton of honey per hive with our provincial average of 192 lbs per hive and that is from stats Canada (to note i have yet to hit that number)

current goal is up around 60 hives. with maybe a future of more if I can get more land to raise them on. plan is to raise them mostly for honey. with the goal of at least 5000 lbs to be able to sell to whole sale markets

we buy queens, my mentor just prefers doing that but then again we are planning to go commercial/larger scale. and wants them to produce honey that first year.