In the last year and a half, we have captured 10 swarms. Capturing a swarm is an excellent way to start keeping bees. It’s not as difficult as it may sound and from my experience, not as dangerous as one might think. Within the last 3 days, I have captured two swarms. It doesn’t require […]
One of the main reasons I keep goats is feta cheese. Feta is an amazingly delicious cheese that adds so much flavor to a lot of dishes – especially Greek salads. You can make raw feta because the process does not require high temperatures. In fact, 86 degrees is the highest temperature you will have […]
I now had two queenless hives from the removal. Basically, I had a bunch of bees from two hives. Without a queen, the bees have no way of making more worker bees. Sometimes a worker bee will lay eggs but they are only capable of laying unfertilized eggs which produce only drones. Drones are male […]
I got more nervous before doing this than I was when I first decided to take the project on. I was immediately excited and then later, I started to feel the pressure and the immensity of this large-scale, four wild-bee hive removal. It didn’t help to also receive input from people that tended toward the […]
Tomorrow, weather permitting, we will start our wild beehive removals. I’m terribly excited and have been preparing for 1-1/2 weeks. My prep work has been gathering items I think I’ll need during the four-hive extraction. The two items that did not come in the mail, are the two items I needed the most–two new bee […]