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Adventures in Apiculture: Livermore Starting to Bloom
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Thursday, February 3, 2011. Livermore Starting to Bloom. February 6, 2011 at 9:55 AM. You have an APRICOT tree? How did I not know this? Im going to come and steal all your apricots this summer! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Blog documenting our adventures with backyard bee keeping in suburban Northern California. Caught in the Act. Livermore Starting to Bloom.
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Adventures in Apiculture: OUCH!
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Sunday, June 26, 2011. Now, you might be thinking, does everything this girl does have to include the possibility of getting stuck with a barbed spike? Like a bee's stinger, the cholla's quills are barbed, making them a bit of an ordeal to remove. In the final analysis, I am quite happy to study the cactus bees on the neighbor's cholla. I don't need one in my back yard! My right baby toe after being stuck by a cactus quill. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Cactus bees and other fun stuff.
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Adventures in Apiculture: TBH Update
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Thursday, February 3, 2011. Was something wrong with her? While I was pulling weeds last week, I saw a couple of workers escort a wingless wonder from the hive. Looks like we're going to have to treat for Varroa soon. I haven't found a good technique for TBH hives though. February 4, 2011 at 9:48 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Blog documenting our adventures with backyard bee keeping in suburban Northern California. Caught in the Act. Livermore Starting to Bloom.
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Adventures in Apiculture: May 2011
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Friday, May 13, 2011. There's a mite on my queen. Say what? Should we treat them and try to save the hive? Should we re-queen and let the remaining bees contribute to a potentially healthy future hive? If we re-queened would the new queen just get attacked by mites too? Tuesday, May 10, 2011. You can go with this, or you can go with that. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Blog documenting our adventures with backyard bee keeping in suburban Northern California. Theres a mite on my queen. Say what?
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Adventures in Apiculture: Happy New Year
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Saturday, January 15, 2011. Today was a perfectly spring-like winter's day. Not a cloud in the sky, barely a breeze and a high of 67! We took advantage of the weather by doing an inspection of the TBH in hopes of preventing the insane swarming that we experienced last year. If we saw a crazy number of bees and loads of food, we were prepared to open the brood nest and add some empty frames. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Adventures in Apiculture: Harvest
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Sunday, August 22, 2010. We harvested a couple of quarts. Word on the street is that you should only try rendering wax from cappings- the thin, pure-ish wax the bees use to cover the fully cured honey for storage. I think that's probably a better idea. But hey, we never do things the easy way, and it seems a real shame to throw out all of the honey comb. August 22, 2010 at 4:10 PM. Please keep me some of that honey to taste. August 23, 2010 at 8:34 PM. Dont you worry. Well save you some:).
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Adventures in Apiculture: July 2011
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Saturday, July 30, 2011. Live from New Orleans! Among the sugar cane fields and oil refineries we passed, there seemed to be plenty of open space where bee hives would thrive, but we hadn't seen any, which made us curious. Then, we entered the Houmas plantation gift shop, and saw quart-sized jars of Houmas honey for sale! As we walked through the gorgeous grounds (they had a water feature with gigantic three-foot-wide lilly pads! Houmas Plantation, Louisiana. Bee hive in a live oak at Houmas Plantation.
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Adventures in Apiculture: The birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees and a thing called love
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Saturday, October 9, 2010. The birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees and a thing called love. As our kind friends and followers keep telling us, we haven't posted a blog in a long time. Why, you ask? Well, our wedding recently took over our lives! We were married at our home on September 25th with our immediate family and close friends in attendance. The bees played an important role as you will see. It was a fantastic day that we will always remember happily. Bee and gold-leaf accents.
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Adventures in Apiculture: Live from New Orleans!
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Saturday, July 30, 2011. Live from New Orleans! Among the sugar cane fields and oil refineries we passed, there seemed to be plenty of open space where bee hives would thrive, but we hadn't seen any, which made us curious. Then, we entered the Houmas plantation gift shop, and saw quart-sized jars of Houmas honey for sale! As we walked through the gorgeous grounds (they had a water feature with gigantic three-foot-wide lilly pads! Houmas Plantation, Louisiana. Bee hive in a live oak at Houmas Plantation.