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Hive Update: Setting Up the Payoff

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Jun 042013
 

Our honey bee colony is at about 50,000 and they’re filling the second super with brood and honey, so I’m adding a third super.

 Posted by kovacks at 11:06 am  Tagged with: bee, brood, drone, excluder, expansion, hive, honey, queen, super, worker

Hive Update: Bee Role

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Apr 252013
 

An update on my honeybee hive. 24 days ago I hived New Zealand Arataki bees in Vancouver, BC. The queen has been busy laying eggs, and right on cue the brood is beginning to hatch. This vid includes 3 weekly reports from my hive plus a visit to my bee mentors’ hive.

 Posted by kovacks at 11:48 pm  Tagged with: BC, bee, hive, honeybee, New Zealand Arataki, queen

Hiving Arataki Bees

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Apr 022013
 

Why am I playing with thousands of bees? Well, how else would I spend Easter Sunday?

 Posted by kovacks at 8:13 am  Tagged with: arataki, bee, bees, comb, drone, frame, hive, hive tool, hiving, honey, honeybee, honeycomb, new zealand, nz, pollen, queen, sugar, super, tube, vancouver, water, worker
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