Its now been about three weeks since we first installed our bees and I wanted to share with you how they are doing. We were a little apprehensive after first getting them installed because we went on vacation for a week three days after installing them and worried something might happen while we were gone […]
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The First Three Weeks
Posted in Beekeeping, tagged bees, brood, capped brood, comb, eggs, feeder, honey, inspection, larva, queen, queen cage, syrup on April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Preparing For The Bees
Posted in Beekeeping, tagged bees, beeswax, chicken, concord, coop, essential oil, feeder, hives, independence, lemongrass, lemongrass essential oil, lexington, names, package, queen, sugar, syrup, virginia bee supply, wax on April 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Being new to beekeeping, the most sure fire way to get bees for our hives was to order packages of bees from a bee supplier. Some people order them through the mail, we were fortunate to have a local beekeeping supply company near us in Northern Virginia called Virginia Bee Supply. They bring packages of […]
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