tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52109516730438737422024-03-04T20:26:13.928-08:00Jared's Adventure Into BeekeepingI am new to the world of both blogging and beekeeping. I hope to chronicle, as so many have done, my experiences into the hobby of beekeeping. I will post anytime I do anything with the hive. I will also try to keep a hive diary on here for records.Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210951673043873742.post-40155532887832015612013-02-23T06:11:00.001-08:002013-02-23T06:11:25.633-08:00This morning, the Forsyth CountyBeekeeper association new beekeeper class commented. It was a pretty good turnout. Every year I assist with demo stations. It is the hands on and q&a session for the attendees. Today was basics of the class, what to expect and the basics of beekeeping.<br />
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My demo station is frames and foundation. I discussed everything from how to assemble them to types of foundation. I will post a pic of the class later.Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210951673043873742.post-83140288860848931602013-01-16T13:31:00.002-08:002013-01-16T13:31:15.839-08:00Forgot to mention in the last post that I got 36 gallons in all of honey in 2012!!!!!Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210951673043873742.post-81891132371891542642013-01-16T13:29:00.002-08:002013-01-16T13:29:18.022-08:00It has been a long time since I have posted.... I get busy and forget about the blog. Sorry everyone!<br />
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I have lost all of my Strachan Apiary Carnis. They have all either frozen due to small cluster size, absconded or outright died. I only had 1 hive that was awesome and I had the most supers ever on it. They all absconded with food in the hive. I am not impressed with their queens.<br />
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I am going to be trying Russians this year. I will hopefully have 4 that are coming from an approved Russian breeder. We will see how they do.<br />
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I have had 3 other cut outs since my last post. 2 apartments and one house.<br />
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I have lost 1/2 of my bees. They have either absconded or starved/froze. I think it is partly due to not being able to do 2 powder sugar shakes in the fall like I try to do. I do not treat with chemicals and the mites probably got bad with no sugar shake.<br />
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A vast majority of my honey crystallizes every year and it is hard to sell. Because of this, I am going to use at least half of my honey every year to continue making mead.<br />
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<br />Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210951673043873742.post-36364698791354715292012-05-25T08:22:00.002-07:002012-05-25T08:22:48.563-07:00busy as a...... :)I have been busy and I apologize for not posting in a while. <br />
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I have 5 apiaries now and 26 hives. I am currently doing 2 trapouts, and starting a 3rd today.<br />
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I have done 2 cutouts this season and am also getting ready to do a removal from a water meter tonight.<br />
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I have officially run out of empty hives. I have 1 nuc left and 1- 10 frame deep with about 8 frames. Other than that, I have no more hive components.<br />
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I have extracted all of the honey for this year and ended up with about 30 gallons! Not bad considering I started with only 8 hives!<br />Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210951673043873742.post-69596123924094786802012-04-07T08:02:00.000-07:002012-04-07T08:02:56.322-07:00one more to add to the listI got a swarm call again last evening and was not able to get pictures due to the fact it was 8:30 pm by the time I could get there.<br />
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There was a ball the size of a basketball. I got it. I looked for any stragglers and right above it was the other half of the swarm.... another basketball size!!!!!! I dumped them in too and headed home.Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210951673043873742.post-35224128209575698482012-04-04T06:18:00.000-07:002012-04-04T06:18:25.236-07:00Another swarm call!I got another call at 5:30 about a swarm of bees in a bush. They were SUPER gentle. The swarm was about the size of a cantaloupe.<br />
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I asked her if she knew the difference between yellow jackets that live in the ground and honey bees and she responded "Yes I know the difference.... I am not an idiot. I am alregic to honey bees and not yellow jackets and these are honey bees!"<br />
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I got there and sure enough it was a swarm!<br />
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I have tons of mature drones and drones in various stages of life. This is great. In about a week, I am going to split all of my strong hives and try to recouperate some of my losses.<br />
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I am also waiting on a call from Larry Tate for when we can start instrumental insemination. Should be fun!Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210951673043873742.post-91569092929683291112012-01-27T11:06:00.000-08:002012-01-27T11:06:13.432-08:00cool happeningsI discovered I have lost yet another hive today. I will be spending my spring making splits and recovering my losses instead of being able to sell nucs. <br />
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I will also be officially starting artificial insemination this year. More to come on that in the future.<br />
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I have 2 bee hives in a country club and they needed to be moved. The people there love them so they built me an awesome stand/platform for them. I am amazed at how involved the people at the country club are with nature. They wanted them near the gardens, so we decided on the location and I told them about my requirements. And this is what they built for me:<br />
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A neighbor where I have some hives took a bunch of pictures and asked a bunch of questions about bees last year. She has entered an art contest with my photo.... Pretty cool! It has some iridescence in it that the camera cant pick up.<br />
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The problem is now me. I have a bunch of comb with dead bees in it from my losses and I am starting my rotation out. I will be removing 2 frames from every box, making the bees make new comb and then processing the wax. I am just really lazy about it and have quite a few supers in need of processing.<br />
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Does anyone have a good way of processing? The way I have been doing it is: boil everything in excess water. Once cooled but still hot, I take a cheese slicer and remove the underside that has all of the trash. I then use a double boiler system on the good wax. This workd well, but takes a really long time. Any suggestions?Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210951673043873742.post-30992203603570862512011-12-31T08:28:00.000-08:002011-12-31T17:26:06.513-08:00Lost more hives and pollenIt was 60 degrees yesterday and I was able to go into all of my hives to check them. I have lost 2 more. All of the hives had queens from strachan and were carniolians. They all absconded or underperformed and froze. I had heard nothing but good about them. Oh well. <br />
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A bunch of the hives had already worked through their honey reserves and I had to put candy boards that had a pollen party embedded for this spring. By the time they eat through the sugar block, they will be needing the pollen for buildup. I will have to post a picture later of what they look like. <br />
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I also noticed 2 different types of pollen they were bringing in. I can't figure out what is blooming for tem to use. It is gray and dull yellow. <br />
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I still have 12 hives. It is wierd as some of them are only half way through their rations and some are onto the sugar I put on top (to make sure they didnt starve over the winter). We are having a really warm winter and I think a few hives have not figured it out......<br />
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Either way, I will be concentrating on recouperating my losses and making honey to sell instead of selling nucs. I will probably end up selling 2 or 3 extras anyway. But, this year I am planning on honey and removing old comb and replacing it with new comb. <br />
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I replace 20% of my hives comb every year. That equates to about 1/2 a brood chamber. It takes a lot of sugar or honey to replace that. I am hoping that we will have a good honey flow and I can get them to replace it fast.Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210951673043873742.post-50004246828797256942011-11-22T07:31:00.000-08:002011-11-22T07:31:09.204-08:00Been a couple of monthsI have not forgotten about any of you out there who read my blog. I have been busy with the job search and life.<br />
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I decided to not do my regular powdered sugar shake this fall for three reasons. First, I forgot. Second, I decided a long time ago that I wanted stronger bees and I didn't want to help the weak colonies. Third, by the time I remembered I was too busy to do it.<br />
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Well, I have already lost 4 hives out of my 16. I have no nucs left to replace them with. They all absconded with brood in the comb which all died. I do not think it was foulbrood as it did not pass the ropiness test or the smell test that confirms it. I think it had to do with mite loads or CCD. While feeding and preping for winter I noticed a few hives that had LARGE numbers of bees with deformed wing virus (a condition caused by mites). More bees were like this than usual. I think the sugar shakes helped last year (and I will be doing them from now on if I want to keep my hives).<br />
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I have fed out all of the honey from those hives and am storing the frames in the garage. The ones with dead brood will be culled and turned into wax blocks next year.<br />
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I have the entrance reducers on and all of the hives should be ready for winter. I will be placing candy boards on top of some next month around christmas, and sugar on newspaper on the tops of the frames on the rest. I just want to make sure I have some bees this spring to make splits from and try to sell.Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210951673043873742.post-47655477772810909652011-08-21T15:20:00.000-07:002011-08-21T15:20:03.313-07:002 months with no postI do apologize to everyone about not posting very often. I get caught up with life and forget.<br />
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So here is what you have missed:<br />
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The two hives with the Kona queens got a type of paralysis virus. I am no longer in favor of the Kona Hawaii queens. tons of dead bees and tons more quivering clinging to the frames and inside the hive.<br />
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Cutouts galore!<br />
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The one below was in an old tree on a golf course. They didnt want to kill them, so they called me.<br />
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And lastly I have a friend who works for a water company and they said there were honey bees in the meter box.<br />
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I did this one for free because he is a good friend, and also because they were just going to kill them if I didn't get them. Turned out that the meter reader freaked out and sprayed them and didn't tell anyone. I only got a handfull of bees.<br />
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Onto the honey harvest!<br />
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In all I ended up with 91 quarts of honey! that is after making 10 splits and quite a few queens! It took me about 3 days to process it all.<br />
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It is a beautiful golden yellow color. I have quite a bit left, but I am getting ready to sell a bunch to the local grocery due to the new organic and local food push we are having around here. I am a part of <a href="http://www.naturallygrown.org/">http://www.naturallygrown.org/</a> and I will be able to get about 2$ more per pint!<br />
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But, I have a problem.... or a blessing. I am not sure yet. I managed to keep it at the perfect temperature to cream it (by accident).... And now about half of the jars have creamed. No, not crystalized, creamed. I have about 40 quarts of creamed honey in jars!<br />
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Mead me:<br />
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I am in the process of making 4 new types of mead. Sweet and dry versions of blackberry and cherry. Both were fresh picked and are doing well. I cannot wait to try them, but it will be next year before I can!<br />
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That's what you have missed over the last 2.5 months summed up in a post!Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210951673043873742.post-40948667382194071302011-06-01T17:32:00.000-07:002011-06-01T17:32:40.329-07:00Honey processingI still have 5 medium supers to extract. I have about 12 gallons of honey so far.<br />
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Enjoy the pics:<br />
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I have started on a yard project to make it look better. Under the mulch is the weeding cloth so I wont have to worry about weeds or grass deciding to grow back through the mulch.<br />
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I have done all of this in about 2 days of 3 hours of work each day plus a trip to Atlanta to see my parents and get some free plants!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The bees were massed in a 5 gallon bucket mass just to the right under the flooring. I used my beevac from ground level to suck them all up. I a, pretty sure I got the queen. In all I got 3 medium supers worth of bees! I will have to go see if they like their new home on Sunday.</div><div align="center"></div>Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210951673043873742.post-5016487920758235302011-04-29T16:10:00.000-07:002011-04-29T16:10:39.177-07:00swarm callAt about 2pm today I got a call from a lady about a swarm of honey bees in her mother's holly bush by the house. She said they always go there in massive numbers each year around this time. They fit the profile of what she was saying, so I drove over. <br />
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It was only a ten minute drive. What she failed to tell me was that they were LIVING in the ground all around the house and had been for years. <br />
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</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They were ground dwelling pollinator bees. Not honey bees. Oh, well.... I guess I have to add: "are they in the ground every year" to the list of things I ask them on the phone when they call swearing there is a honey bee swarm in their yard.</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In other news, I have 7 nucs that have successfully made queens. Carni, italian and carni x italians are the types. 4 or 5 are already claimed. I would have had 10, but one froze because it was too cold and not enough bees. One went queenless and didn't make a queen, so they became laying workers. And one made a deformed queen. </div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I need to move the hives out to the apiary that has only 3 hives. I also need to find one more apiary location somewhere close so that I can keep 5 hives max per apiary.... That means I have 15 hives now!<br />
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This picture is of the apiary behind the airport. I have 2 more full hives there and 2 more nucs....<br />
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</div>Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210951673043873742.post-28636987341337518252011-04-16T16:09:00.000-07:002011-04-16T16:10:55.654-07:00No Time to RestI am sorry I have not posted in a long time. I have been really busy.<br />
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The bees are bringing in nectar and making honey. 4 of the hives were about a week away from starting the process of swarming, so I have made a bunch of nucs and splits.<br />
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I need to make another split from one of my hives I have at a different apiary, but I am going to wait a bit because I have carni queens coming from Strachan Apiaries next week. I will just split it up the day before and make a few nucs to put the new queens in.<br />
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This is what my bee yard at the house looks like:<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I am also trying my hand at a hefeweizen. I found a recipe that I thought would be nice and got everything together. I decided to use liberty hops. It comes in a packet like this: </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">On a side note, I had a helper (Mac) who was nice enough to lend a hand on the IPA and bottle 3 different versions of my mead. He bottled my chocolate blend, pina colada and plain meads. He did a fantastic job from cleaning and prepping all the way through filling and corking. I have to give him a big thumbs up! Thanks Mac!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeHX8fh3wSU4r9CF2JeNHxtgu0gE2IqjsfinD2iZs5PZoo4KDNhcAjZ2jgkZnMgb4oYT5YzLR5ka_FptxiKZ4pYc49GjPavoI8-VqwegH540vHCfcvGGj_d6vzD_JPPXjLpCkT7l9SDErT/s1600/beer+006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeHX8fh3wSU4r9CF2JeNHxtgu0gE2IqjsfinD2iZs5PZoo4KDNhcAjZ2jgkZnMgb4oYT5YzLR5ka_FptxiKZ4pYc49GjPavoI8-VqwegH540vHCfcvGGj_d6vzD_JPPXjLpCkT7l9SDErT/s320/beer+006.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210951673043873742.post-44566829693066573842011-03-03T15:27:00.000-08:002011-03-03T15:27:01.162-08:00Bee Tree CutoutI got a call today from a gentleman who had cut down a tree and found a hive of bees in it. He wanted to keep the bees and become a beekeeper. My role was to sell him a full hive of equipment and remove the bees and place them into it. I am also to assist him in the future with some questions and how to inspect the hives.<br />
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Walking to the tree I noticed this bee foraging... I figured I would snap a pic real fast.<br />
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</div>All of our stuff was loaded onto a trailer to be brought into the woods to get the bees.<br />
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</div>The tree was quite large. The gentleman would not go anywhere near it without my spare suit on.<br />
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After the lecture on a basic introduction to beekeeping, there were demo stations. I presented at one of the stations: <span style="font-size: small;">Protective equipment, hive tools, smokers and Hive stands. My presentation was to 1/2 of the crowd. They were broken up into smaller groups to wander amongst the stations. Each time lasted about 15 minutes and had a Q&A session at the end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The next few weekends are going to be full of demo station presentations as well. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">March 5- <span style="font-size: small;">How and when to inspect a hive</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">March 12- <span style="font-size: small;">Feeder types and feeding sugar</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">March 26- <span style="font-size: small;">Requeening principles and techniques</span></span></span></span><br />
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April 2 will be the bee yard day. I will have up to 9 people to be a mentor for throughout the year and beyond. These people will come to my apiary and I will grade them/help them on an actual inspection. This will be their practical test for the NC Beekeepers Certified Beekeeper level exam. <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span>Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02483466166672886366noreply@blogger.com0