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Comment on Happy Mother’s Day! by Emily Heath

Emily Heath — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:57:00 +0000

Probably a British thing then!

Comment on Happy Mother’s Day! by karcuri13

karcuri13 — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:16:56 +0000

Wow, I learn something new everyday. I didn’t even consider having a hive configured in the “warm way”. I would have totally failed that question if I was taking your English Bee Exams

Comment on Happy Mother’s Day! by Emily Heath

Emily Heath — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:47:53 +0000

Ah, so you have your frames positioned the “cold way”, at right angles to the entrance. I have mine the “warm way”, running parallel to the entrance. It doesn’t affect the colony too much either way, but it does create different shape brood patterns.

Comment on Happy Mother’s Day! by karcuri13

karcuri13 — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:35:00 +0000

How are your hives configured? My entrance is situated where they have access to all 8 frames equally. I do still have the entrance reducer on, but the entrance is on the side with frames 5-8.

Comment on Happy Mother’s Day! by Emily Heath

Emily Heath — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:32:35 +0000

“I also noticed that Rosemary loves building out frames 1-4 first and ignoring frames 5-8.”

Are frames 1-4 nearest the entrance? My bees seem to build from the entrance outwards and are slow at populating the back frames. It’s the same when the super goes on, they build over the brood nest first at the front and centre of the super as that’s where it’s warmest.

Nice to see them all doing so well!

Comment on Sunshine Community Garden Site Prep by Artichokes in the Ornamental Garden « Game of Thorns

Artichokes in the Ornamental Garden « Game of Thorns — Sun, 06 May 2012 20:59:05 +0000

[...] small, I’m lucky to be able to visit the Sunshine Community Gardens once a week when I help Karl take care of his hive there. Usually, I also check out the veggies and take notes on their professional methods of growing [...]

Comment on BeeSweet Lemonade by loriemarrero

loriemarrero — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:57:13 +0000

Thank you so much for mentioning this! I DID go to see her last year and bought many glasses of this delicious lemonade! She is adorable and her PARENTS are amazing, really like them.

Comment on Rosemary Week 3 by Emma Sarah Tennant

Emma Sarah Tennant — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:32:28 +0000

I’m so glad to hear your Queen Rosemary is faring better than ours did this year Bees are wonderful hard workers!

Comment on Report a Swarm by Byron Browne

Byron Browne — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:34:53 +0000

I have two very near my home. Both inside oak trees. One has been there for a few years, the other just moved in behind the house two weeks ago.
If you’d like, or know how to remove them, let me know.

Comment on Knives 2.0 Update by karcuri13

karcuri13 — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:42:38 +0000

No kidding. I’ve already reached my quota for 2012 on angry aggressive bees.