Sunday, April 5, 2015
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Friday, March 27, 2015
BIP team Out to Help With Stock Selection
Hygenic behavior testing, mite counts, Nosema levels, and virus testing. If one is serious about breeding good metrics must be employed. Thank you Dan & Ellen!
Monday, March 23, 2015
A Day in the Pears
Making the rounds feeding bees and learned almost the hard way to not trust crusty old orchard bridges.
Friday, March 20, 2015
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Holding yard starting to fill
2 trucks and 2 yards... bees coming soon to make pears. In the pear orchard again by Tuesday.
Friday, March 13, 2015
Possible Metarhizum infection
Metarhizum is a fungal biopesticide that is nontoxic to vertibrates. Work is being done to find a strain that loves to eat Varroa but not bees. It is a naturally occurring soil fungus.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Friday, February 13, 2015
Two-Way Mating Nucs
Winter is still a busy time for us. Here are two of our industrious worker bees, Kaat and Arelle, building and painting new two-way mating nucs to be ready for spring.
Friday, February 6, 2015
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Hungry Bees + Nice Weather
=feeding frenzy
Best over wintering in a long time! Dry feeding sub, patty and carbs fed inside hive.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
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