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Urban Apiary: Beekeeping Tips
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Honeybees in the City". Monday, February 19, 2007. Treat for Tracheal mites with menthol in August. Treat for Varroa mites on October 1st. Treat for Nosema in late October or November. Prevent robbing before it starts, equalize your colony populations. Feed 2:1 sugar syrup to provide 70 pounds of winter stores. Requeen your colonies in late August or September 1st. You will have NO DEAD BEES IN THE WINTER, and big, strong, HEALTHY colonies ready to make a record crop in the spring. Great stuff, Chris!
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Urban Apiary: Treating for Varroa, Small Hive Beetles & American Foulbrood Disease
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Honeybees in the City". Sunday, February 18, 2007. Treating for Varroa, Small Hive Beetles and American Foulbrood Disease. Came by to give me a hand on Saturday. We needed to treat against American/European Foulbrood disease. Strips for the SHB and Varroa Mites and used Terramycin powder. For the AFB. Note in the picture the pollen patty. And some warm weather will make this possible. I will still need another package of bees for the Top Bar Hive that I have. On Sunday, February 18, 2007. I was on a busi...
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Urban Apiary: Making Fondant
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Honeybees in the City". Monday, February 19, 2007. 15 pounds granulated sugar. 3 pounds corn syrup. 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar. Prepare in the same manner as the smaller recipe only use a larger pot. Simply place a cake of fondant on the top of the frames closest to the main cluster of bees. A super or a one-inch wooden rim should be put in place to allow room for the fondant and bees. A six-pound cake may last 10-15 days if the colony is large. On Monday, February 19, 2007. Is worth $1,693.62. Treatin...
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Urban Apiary: HoneyBee Removal - Lazy Acres
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Honeybees in the City". Sunday, May 06, 2007. HoneyBee Removal - Lazy Acres. A few weeks ago I placed an ad in the Georgia Farmers and Consumers Market Bulletin. Advertising bee removal services. I had intended only to remove low hanging swarms, etc. But I received a call from Lazy Acres Farm in Brooks, Georgia inquiring about removal of bees from a stucco driveway entrance wall. On Sunday, May 06, 2007. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Is worth $1,693.62. How much is your blog worth? In my hotel room...
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Urban Apiary: Queen shipment
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Honeybees in the City". Wednesday, April 11, 2007. The 6 Italian Queens I ordered from Rossman Apiaries. Several weeks ago arrived today. The ". Was at my doorstep about 9:30am I immediately opened the package and inspected each and every one of the cages. I had 6 live Queens. Not even any Queen cells. There isn't any evidence of a Queen for atleast several weeks! I re-checked and did NOT find a Queen. Oh Well! I removed the cork from the candy end of the Queen cage and placed it in the hive. Several wee...
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Urban Apiary: Brrr...it's cold ! ! !
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Honeybees in the City". Monday, April 09, 2007. The warm weather disappeared just as fast as it came. The past few days the overnight lows have been around 30 degrees. This comes after 3 weeks of very warm weather. I've planted several varieties of Butterfly Bushes. As well as a small garden. I'm hopeful the cooler temperatures didn't kill what I've planted. I have a shipment of 6 Queens coming from Rossman Apiaries. I recently acquired some bee hives through a little horse trading. Jeff. Jeff is usually...
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Urban Apiary: The buzz business
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Honeybees in the City". Tuesday, March 20, 2007. Printed in High Country News. Some people try to make a killing on killer bees. TUCSON, Ariz. - Twelve years into the killer bee invasion of the United States, Tip Tisdale steers his pickup truck into the driveway of a custom home in the desert outskirts of this desert city. It’s a hot Monday morning in late April and this is the U.S. city where the invaders, also called Africanized bees, are most established. The foragers are bringing water in - see?
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Urban Apiary: SlowGardening.com
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Honeybees in the City". Wednesday, April 11, 2007. Gardening the hard way has its rewards". Anne Brennan has left several comments on my blog so I followed the link to her name and found that she has a pretty neat gardening blog. There's also a section on beekeeping and Anne appears to be a new "beek" herself. I highly recommend you spend a few minutes browsing her blog. It will be worth your time. On Wednesday, April 11, 2007. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Is worth $1,693.62. Georgia, United States.
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Urban Apiary: Saturday was a work day...
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Honeybees in the City". Sunday, March 04, 2007. Saturday was a work day. My order from Mann Lake. Arrived mid-week while I was away on a business trip. Saturday morning my good friend Ronnie Tindle. Pictured at left) helped me assemble and paint the following:. 4 -9 5/8" deep brood boxes. 4 - outer covers. This only took us a couple of hours from start to finish and was a real efficient process thanks to Ronnie's assistance. I would have spent most of the day on this task if I didn't have his help! We ar...
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Urban Apiary: February inspection - getting ready for Spring...
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Honeybees in the City". Sunday, February 11, 2007. February inspection - getting ready for Spring. I did a very thorough inspection of my 3 hives today. I also did a quick inventory of my extra tools, supers, frames, etc.I'm getting ready for the upcoming season! I found all 3 hives to be in really great shape! I did remove the hive top feeders. You may remember from an October post that I had a 4th hive that "diappeared" on me! I've also put together a list of items I will need to order from Mann Lake.
