Nice photos!The bees are still busy harvesting whatever is remaining in our yard.
On the lavender.
🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝
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Thank you!
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Getting ready to extract our remaining honey today. I think we have 14 frames of summer honey and 14 frames of buckwheat honey. We will extract the summer honey first and then the buckwheat. We will have to turn on the heater we put in our bee shed to make it easier to extract the honey.
Glad we already have the frames pulled and don't need to get into the hives.
I will also check to see if they need more syrup.
Going to bee a busy day.
Glad we already have the frames pulled and don't need to get into the hives.
I will also check to see if they need more syrup.
Going to bee a busy day.
SageHill
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Well, my time of observing my bees, started out like this! The girls enjoying the flowers.
Then it changed to this!
I think we have some hive robbing going on.
I've been wanting to add robbing screens, but we just haven't gotten around to it. Our lives have been so hectic. I flipped the entrance reducers for the time being. Hubs is looking at building the screens.
Bees are flying everywhere.
Then it changed to this!
I think we have some hive robbing going on.
I've been wanting to add robbing screens, but we just haven't gotten around to it. Our lives have been so hectic. I flipped the entrance reducers for the time being. Hubs is looking at building the screens.
Bees are flying everywhere.
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Just checked again. After flipping the entrance reducers, it's calmed back down. Not sure what that was about.
One of my more knowledgeable bee friends suggested that it might just have been a lot of new bees on their orientation flight. I'm sure I'll never know...lol
One of my more knowledgeable bee friends suggested that it might just have been a lot of new bees on their orientation flight. I'm sure I'll never know...lol
SageHill
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Hive robbing?? Other bees taking honey from some other bees' hive?? Looked pretty scary to me.
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Yeah, that's what can happen. Other honeybees, wasps & yellow jackets. Crazy right! They quickly settled down, so I'm really not sure that's what was going on.
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Today's honey extraction is going to be selective. I was afraid that we had buckwheat mixed into our summer honey and I was right. We're extracting 4 frames at a time and choosing the ones with the least amount of buckwheat to extract first. Some of the frames are solid buckwheat on one side and a mix on the other. So, we'll extract the mixed sides first. Scrape out the extractor and then do the solid buckwheat. Will be interesting to see how strongly the buckwheat comes through.
Mixed, shows the difference in color.
More solid. This will be extracted with the frames of full buckwheat.
Running 4 frames at a time takes longer, but I'm going for a better result. Once we get to the full buckwheat I'll spin 8 at a time.
Mixed, shows the difference in color.
More solid. This will be extracted with the frames of full buckwheat.
Running 4 frames at a time takes longer, but I'm going for a better result. Once we get to the full buckwheat I'll spin 8 at a time.
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Our bee club president just shared this...lol
