I was checking my API VAR my second week of application and I noticed at that time I had a significant mite kill (see picture) in one week, the API...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles-Feeding Bees in Preparation for Colder Weather
I decided that as the fall weather was turning colder and I was no longer feeding my bees liquid bee food that I should start giving them different food. I...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Bees & Wax
What is happening: I went into my "Swarm hive" and noticed the entire upper box was filled with honey (no brood) so I checked the bottom box and identified eggs...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Fall Bee Treatment
What is happening: The honey supers are all off of the hives and I am down to two deep supers for brood chambers on all three hives. What I am...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Inspecting for Honey Harvest
About a week and a half prior to preparing for honey extraction, I wanted to see what kind of honey harvest I was going to get. As you can see...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Honey Extracting Party
We recently had a honey extracting party at my parents home. The beautiful sweet honey you see pictured is some of the fruits from the bees. My wife and sons...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Beekeepers Visit
My son and I recently paid a visit my friend Paul to check out how his bees were doing and see if he needed any assistance with his bees. Paul...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Oh Sweet Honey!
I decided to check on the swarm hive that I captured recently to see how they were as I had added a honey super. I noticed that the bees were...
Bee Chronicles by Alan – Swarm Hive
I caught the swarm a week ago and was previously unable to find the old queen to replace her with a new queen. I went to find the old queen...
Alan’s Vinegar & Sugar Syrup Recipe for Bees
After about a month of testing a vinegar and sugar syrup for feeding my bees, I have made some revisions to my formula. I noticed that if I added too...
Bee Chronicles by Alan – Supersedure
One week after I added my second deep super to both hives I wanted to check to see if they had moved up and cleaned up some of the frames...
Bee Chronicles by Alan – Catching a Swarm
My wife Kelly and I got a text from friends of ours, Jason and Ann, who have a 5 acre farm near the river where we live. They reported seeing...
Bee Chronicles by Alan – Packaged Bee Hive
If you remember last week (one week after I added the 2nd Deep Super) the queen had laid in 3 frames. This week I checked and basically all of the...