It has been slightly over two weeks since the last inspection. In that time I have stopped feeding both hives. Neither sugar water or poll...

Mary & Myrina 83F Mostly Sunny Myrina seemed as aggressive as usual lately. I swear smoke makes them angry not passive. I use pine nee...

Three days after I put the new Queen into Mary It's time to take out the Queen cage. These bees have seen more of me lately that I'...

With what I've learned since Spring I now realize I should have done this sooner. The colony showed signs of being weak from the first ...

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 ...