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Installing a New Queen

Unusual (for me anyway) bee noises. Heard this several times while gently holding the new queen cage. Lets see if the video loads here. You will hear birds chirping first… then a rhythmic noise called “piping”. That’s the virgin queen bee!...

Shearing Splendor

I must say, every year it thrills us how fantastic friends can be. Shearing day can be a trying time, however, isn’t this what its all about? Hard work, hard play and the reward is an amazing fiber fluff of stuff! A few bumps at first (and as always) as we all...

Anticipation

Aaargh… due to weather in Georgia… where the girls are coming from… we’ve been delayed in receiving our packages. I guess thats a good thing since we’ve had such horrible rainy and cold weather here in CT. The packages will now be...

Hive inspections

Alisa is standing next to The Sunflower hive during late May. Girls are busy bringing in pollen.           Hive inspection reveals several queen cells. This hive needed to create a queen. Sometimes that...