Demaree No Longer Serves a Purpose So Time To Combine Honey Supers Into One

Sometimes You Gotta Just Let The Bees Do Their Bee Stuff and Get Out of The Way

3 Weeks Later I Inspect The Demaree Hive. Which is Now Just a Hive With Two Honey Supers ON It

Walk Away Split Success Both Hives Look Very Strong & the Queenless Hive Made a Bunch Of New Queens

Quick video with a plan for 7 days of miserable weather on what should be prime time spring flow!

Taking a Teeny Tiny Queen Cell and Making a Split. Beginner Beekeeping 101

Demaree Success! One Last Look for a Queen Cell on Day 14 and I Find One! Now What Do I Do With It?

Adding Super to two very full deep brood boxes of bees

Walk Away Split of a Good Hive. Time to Make More Bees and Splits

Hive Number One Inspection Bursting at The Seems. Need to Add A Honey Super and Get Ready To Split

Building out the second box. This easy tip can help the bees build out the top box faster

Demaree part 2. 6 Days Later I Check My Demaree Split That Went Oh So Wrong.

Demaree Manipulation to Prevent Swarming and Make Queens. Goes South But Maybe It'll Work

Fume Boards Stink Like Ass...But They Work Perfectly. Easy way to move Bess Out Of a Box

Wholly Pollen Batman! Barely Anything In Bloom But The Bees Find A Way!

When Should You Add Another Box to Your Bees?

Do This Now. Flipping Boxes, Feeding and Mite Treatments in April. Don't Wait to Get This Done!

Warm Weather Means Removing Winterization and Doing A Quick Inspection to Get Hives Ready For Spring

Beekeeping Its not rocket science but a couple minor things can help your hives last longer

First Warm Day You Get In March Inspect Your Hives. Alive Mar 1 May Be Dead Mar 31Be Ready to Feed

Record Snow Fall About to Hit. Check the Hives to See What Kind Of Shape They Are In

Electric Fence Year 2. What I've Changed What I've Kept The Same. What I Will Change For Next Year

Let the foraging begin

December Bee Feed and Farewell to Our Lovely Dog Tower...

Winter Bee Check

December 17, 2024 Quick peek at the bees.

Checking the Splits

The Idiot Inspection of an "Almost Certainly Queenless Hive"

Requeening The Sole Survivor Hive

Squishing a Queen

Inspecting the BCBC hive. Was Nasty Now Has Settled Right Down

Checking my emergency spilts

Installing a Nasty NUC. But Can They Be Rehabilitated? Beggars Can't be Choosers!

Bear Attack Has This Hive on The Verge

Adding a Second Deep Brood Box To An Exploding Hive. 86Offroad Took in its Neighbour and is Bursting

Moving my hive to its new home

Building a New Apiary With An Electric Fence to Keep The Bears Out!

I Inspect both hives to see if the bear attack hive made it & to see if the OFFRoad hive took em in

I Render 3 Years Worth of Wax. Is It Worth It? I Think So!

Signs of life. Some decent activity at the front of the bar attack hive.

Aftermath Quick Visit to Feed Both Bee Hives (or what's left). Prognosis not looking good after bear

As I Feared A Bear Attacked and Destroyed One Hive. Fortunately One Survived But He'll Be Back.

Derek from 86Offroad Pays It Forward. I plan to do the same!

Managing your smoker after your work is done

1 Week Inspection of New 86 Offroad hive. Bee Numbers are Good Resources Are Good. Ready to Explode!

Fixing Wonky Burr Comb

My First Look at the Carniolan Queen From my First NUC She Looks Young and Dark and Skinny so NORMAL

Wonky Comb Fail. How do I Fix it!?

Soft Inner Lid Makes Minor Work Really Easy and Less Disruptive.

First Inspection Watch For This and Fix It Right Away!

Why Are Bees Drowning In This Feeder? They have ridges to grip. Sanitation is good. So Why?

I install a NUC courtesy of Derek @86offroad Racing Against The Weather

Queen Spotting. It Ain't Easy But it Gets Easier With Practice. Quick Little Video That Might Help!

First Hive Inspection After Installing the NUC

Gear. You Don't Need A Lot to Get Started!

Installing Bees for the first time in 2 Years. Back in the Beekeeping Biz. I Install My First Nuc.

Last Minute Preparations for Bee Colony. First Colony of Bees arrives in less than 48 Hours.

Bees Are Ready for Pick Up!

Checking OUt An Apiary in Another Country. Down sketchy trails and roads I find the local Apiary

I Explain Why The Big Blue Tarp Under and Around My Bee Hives