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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    28 F at 4 AM and will likely drop some more. Hearing the irrigation pumps at the farm when I took the pup out. Another 20 + degree night for Wednesday and Thursday Bees will be going to work late these next 2-3 days. Ten day chk on swarm traps for just a re-bait.
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Bees will deal with it. I did pull the mediums to cut down space to keep the brood cluster and space to be heated to a minimum. More concerned with bud and bloom of our main nectar source, Blueberries. It'll be what it is so ............🤞
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Tuesday night, not a frost advisory, a FREEZE WARNING, low to mid 20s Faren..........., just wonderful, HAPPY SPRING!
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Calling for one night 31F, just what I don't want to hear. Here we are in lower topography so a little lower temp. Nephew will be on frost watch, probably run irrigation.
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Bees are not interested in cleaning the extracted sugar syrup combs, tells me they're bringing in natural nectar. I'm leaning towards using ten drawn frames in at least two splits with the other ten just in case I can get another, or a swarm, or both. 5, 6 or 7. I like my chances!
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    Feeding Wild Birds

    First Hummingbird, Happy Easter DW, are you happy, I have another job! Put the feeders out April 1rst.
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Easter Sunday, honey supers are going on, Blueberry bloom coming on this week. :celebrate
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Same to Ya!
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    If you have a half hour...........For your general info, not for political bent.
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    These are from the dead out and are deeps, so it's maid service for a split or swarm that I will be doing. After a honey extraction I do put them back on during the summer. In the fall it's a free for all on mediums as the frames go into the deep freeze for winter.
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    I wish! Had 20 to do in a 3 frame X. Will be 9 frames in the medium honey supers and wanted the math to work. Forgot to mention I did a taste test and 100% sugar syrup, not a hint of honey. Will put the boxes out tomorrow for the clean-up crew with a 78 F temp. Forty-four and mist today, they're...
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Sunday when I did my flips walked in the house for something and immediately got hollard at and chased back outside as DW said back was covered in bees. Told her "you panic too easily, they just want to say howdy".
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    That is one fancy shipping cage!
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Two and a half gallons of syrup from the 20 deep frames. One more filter through the Leggs and will be ready for either a split feed or Fall feed. When I chk the hives next Wednesday I will decide on splits. I'm sure one, probably 2 since both hives are strong. That only leaves the swarm traps...
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Quick 20 deep frame ride on the extractor. Biggest pro, time. Can be uncapping when X is spinning. Like the that I can sneak up the speed so I can keep it from walking, also like that it is very quiet. Only minus for me is I have to make a raised platform so I can fit both 5 gal bucket plus...
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