Inspected both hives. Mary has had a rough year. She may not currently have a queen, inspected small top super and there is no honey, but t...

Old farmer Bob, who I bought the hives from, never used an Queen excluder. I know this because I melted down all the wax from the honey su...

This morning I checked on Mary to see if all the bees made it back into the hive last night. Sadly there was still a good size ball beneath...

So I've decided to remove all the old honey supers because of the wax moth infection. Today I removed the remaining three supers. Two ...

Well, each hive consists of two hive bodies with two additional supers on top. I propped open the top covers a month ago to let the hives v...

I have two of them & find it necessary to give them names. Hive one is named Marry after Mary I of England . Notice the profound lack ...

I am terrible at maintaining a note book log. So I plan to make all my notes here. I have two hives and inspect about one a week. Plus th...

***Continually Updated*** - - - T he first stand came with Mary & Myrina.  It was the one used by the Farmer I bought the hives fr...

(Link to 2009 Chronicle) ☼ ☼ ☼ September 30, 2008 Stop feeding 1:1 syrup & pollen patties Much Fall Pollen September 14, 2008 No dra...

June 1, 2011 ( post link ) SBB, SR, DHB1, DHB2, MHS1     , IC, TC Add 10 frame Medium honey super (MHS2), foundationless undrawn Add Im...