Any Bee keepers in here?

I imagine you would be huge too if you had to poop out over a thousand eggs a day.

 

Dave that sounds great Im glad to hear everything is working out for you

 

I got my box of bees tonight. The guy I got them from was really helpful and walked me through the installation and everything. This is going to bee fun. (sorry for the pun).

 

here is my failed queen. any ideas matt?
i pulled her out sunday. tuesday i took an uncapped queen cell with a good grub in it from my strong hive and popped it in weak one. took queen from strong hive and started a new colony with her. left Qcells in the strong hive so we should get another strong one hopefully. put first super one that hive too.

 

Im not sure about that CR she doesnt look right something looks screwy with her butt and she looks small. Was she still laying? How was her brood pattern was it irregular or nice and neat? I think you did the right thing though in getting rid of her and starting fresh with a new queen and doing the split. I would post those pics along with some info on www.beesource.com and see if anybody there can give you some better info.

 

Finally got the bees installed yesterday. It went really well and everyone seems happy.
Overnight last night we had somewhat unexpected bad weather with 77 mph winds. Woke up around 1 am with a sick feeling in my stomach and went to check on the hive after the really bad wind went away. They were still standing and seemed to be doing ok. There were 5 little bees clustered on the downwind side of the box looking at me like "what the heck is that?".
I was relieved to see they were fine again this morning, but we have more weather headed our way, so I'm really hoping we can make it through the next several days without issue.
Anyway, I figured this would be an adventure, but its exceeding my expectations.
Other than the wind and rain, I had no idea how cool this hobby would be until I actually started working with them. Cant wait to do more.

 

I ordered an extractor bundle from brushy mountain the other day along with a refractometer to measure the moisture content before I extract Im pretty excited about it and cant wait to get and use it. I should be extracting pretty soon Ive got three supers that are almost full and the bees have started to cap it and I added another super last week so that shouldnt be to far behind

 

Here's a video of the package to hive operation if anyone is interested.

 

Great job looks like some happy bees

 

Thanks! I think they are doing really good! Even with the weather being iffy.

 

looking good!

 

She was laying a nice pattern in the fall and went into winter with population almost as strong as my other hive, 95% i would say.

 

Here is my good laying queen and a shot of her nice pattern on a frame. The weak hive abandoned the uncapped qcell and made three emergency ones. Two are capped already. Hopefully i get a good queen. The strong hive thAt i removed the queen has about a dozen qcells.

 

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Who else has bears in their neighborhood? Check out this fury fella that came through the front yard tonight. Well its not a good pic. Electric fence was good investment for me i reckon.

 

I firmly believe that all these pesticides are whats killing the honeybees and us for that matter.

Weve got plenty of bears around here I havent seen any but my beek friend a couple miles up the road said she had one walking through her back pasture the other day I sure hope they dont get a mind to wonder through our yard.