For the first time ever I was able to get a photo of our queen. Actually, she’s our second queen. The first wore out after 4 years and the colony didn’t survive. The current queen moved into the hive with a few thousand of her…
Well, not my house, but their house. I’ve had a beehive in my backyard for the past 4 years and have posted photos of it before. Sadly, it didn’t make it through the winter. At least not in good enough shape to come back…
With the warmer-than-usual temps, I was able to peek into my beehive one last time and check on the girls (they kicked out all the boys/drones out weeks ago) . I was hoping to see if the pesticide strips had gotten rid of the mites…
