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Would anyone have any photos from the National Honey Show from the early days at the Crystal Palace? If so, could you send to my email address. Have to do a talk on Saturday about honey judging and honey shows [email protected]

Double nucs with a shared super have an issue with requeening. They won't. If one side decides to change their queen, or you do, it will fail every time. Once you add that common super above an excluder, the double nuc becomes one colony. The colony has a queen, and won't accept another.

Little leaf Linden, Tilia chordata, is in full bloom.

Catching queens today...128 mating nucs. I have three beekeepers visiting from England along with us.

They become attractive in the pale green photo. The other the flowers are going by. Both photos are of male flowers. Once done, the flowers fall off leaving a spike. Do you have a photo of female flowers? They too Are attractive when pale green. Once they go by, the flower cluster become fruits...

Well, I usually do things a bit differently. I would remove the Q+ colony from its bottom. Place the Q- on the bottom. Paper. Q+ on paper. Q+ super on. Bees in Q- super are banged out into the lid and the super is added to hive. Q- bees dumped out front. Why? Q+ retains its field force. Q+...

Very nice

Setting up my mating nucs with brood is the only way I do it. I unite the nucs 4:1 after the last queen catch. They're moved to the wintering yards. When we reestablish the mating nucs the following May, we have brood to use. Each nuc receives one frame of feed, one frame of open brood, one...

Multi Floral Rose...a wicked invasive...is in full bloom. Burnt orange pollen. Staghorn Sumac coming on. A very good nectar producer. Slight vanilla flavor in the honey.

Linden is covered with blossom buds after a warm winter. Plenty of moisture in the ground. Now we just need the weather. Expecting the Little Leaf Linden (Tilia cordata) to bloom before the end of the month, and our American Basswood Tilia americana) soon after that.

Yes, Tok Junction. Was there in 1970. Hitchhiking to Alaska. As you say, a lifetime ago.

Hawthorn! The fragrance is very strong right now. Some think it foul, but I quite enjoy it. Reminds me every year it's almost June and livin' is easy.

Yeah, I know. Just trying to put out there that when done right, it really doesn't have to be so stressful.

Well, I've moved many thousands of hives into apples or amongst my apiaries. I like to move in the early morning after they have cooled off overnight. Early on, I took over-the-top precautions to confine the bees to their hive so I could "safely" move them. I found rather soon that once you...

I think trying to make a living with honey bees is most certainly getting more difficult. When I started 50 years ago, the worst thing that could happen was AFB. Very little of that ever. No real issue burning a few hives. Now, I never see the disease. Of course Acarine and Varroa changed...

I would requeen them with hygienic stock. I'm not sure if anything like that is available to you. Are there any UK queen breeders who are using the frozen brood assay for identifying hygienic stock? Believe it when I say, at one time my operation was stinky, rotten with chalkbrood. 800-1000...

Practice makes perfect. My help brings me the comb with the new queen. I catch, mark, cage, and add attendants. One thing...it's easier to pick up attendants from a flat surface...such as a comb of bees flat down. Or...I dump bees from mating nuc combs onto my table. The bees wings are always...

Finished unwrapping hives today. The bees are looking good. Lots with 8-12 frames of bees. Maple almost finished. ***** Willow in full bloom. Daffodils just opening. Getting through a very wet mud season...the fifth season of the year.

I trap a hundred pounds of pollen every year, using it to feed cell builders. The pollen is stored in the freezer until used. I expect it will remain good for a year or more

What is Pete's variation?