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Two Hives In One
I am going though all of my hives right now – more on the “what I do” in the next blog – but I thought my “two hives in one” moment was quite interesting. FALL 2013 : NO QUEEN? MERGE … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Brookfield Farm Bee Yards, Queen Rearing : Honeybees
Tagged Beekeeping, bees, Brookfield Farm, hive, honeybees, Maple Falls, over winter, queens, two, Washington
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Why Jaws of Worker Honeybees Differ From Queen Bees
First off, the “jaws” of honeybees are really called mandibles. “Mandibles” is a lot to get in a header, and they do act as jaws. The mandibles open side to side rather than up and down like our jaws. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Brookfield Farm, honeybee, jaw, mandible, Maple Falls, queens, Washington, worker
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Installing Russian Queens
Every year I have purchased ten queens for new up-river hives. This year I was able to buy the girls from Cold Country Queens in New York State. I particularly wanted queens from this source because they raise Russian Queens … Continue reading
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Tagged Beekeeping, bees, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, Farm, honeybee, install, Maple Falls, queens, Russian, Washington
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An Idea for Practicing Grafting Honeybee Larvae
A recap of our group’s queen bee grafting endeavors, and an idea on how to practice grafting honeybee larvae without a cell builder to test one’s grafts Continue reading
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Tagged bee, Beekeeping, bees, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, cells, Farm, graft, grafting, hives, honeybees, how to, ideas, Karen Bean, larvae, Maple Falls, Mt. Vernon, nucleus, nucs, Pat Ray, practice, queens, Washington
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Grafting Honeybee Larvae to Make Queen Cells
Grafting honeybee larvae to create queen cells. Continue reading
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Tagged bee, Beekeeping, bees, board, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, cells, cloake, cloake board, cloke, Farm, graft, grafting, hives, honeybees, how to, Karen Bean, larva, larvae, Maple Falls, Pat Ray, queen, Queen cells, queen rearing, queens, rearing, Sue Cobey, Washington
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Workers and Queen Cells Unite! Adventures in Queen Rearing, Part 2
Our group puts the gathered nurse honeybees and a queen cell into mini-mating nuclei (nucs) to allow the queen bee to emerge and begin to lay eggs. Continue reading
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Queen Rearing – A Sequence of Events – Part 1: Shaking Bees
Gathering nurse bees using a honeybee shaker box – part 1 of a series on our on-going queen rearing project at Bruce Bowen Bees in Mt. Vernon, Washington Continue reading
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Tagged bee, Beekeeping, bees, box, boxes, brood, Bruce Bowen, collect, honeybees, how to, Mt. Vernon, nurse bees, queen rearing, queens, shaker, shaker box, Washington
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Honeybee Books
Books on Honeybees and other Insects that Beekeeper Karen Bean recommends, or simply likes. From the practical : “how to keep bees” and “how to raise queens” to honey bee behavior and insects in general. Karen Bean is the Beekeeper at Brookfield Farm, Maple Falls, WA Continue reading
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Tagged 40 Years Among The Bees, Ants and Wasps", bee biology, bee books, bees, behavior, biology, Biology of the Honey Bee, book reviews, books, breeding, Breeding Queens, bug, C.C. Miller, Dr. Marla Spivak, Eric Grissell, Gilles Fert, Honey Plants of North America, honeybee, honeybee biology, Honeybee Democracy, how to keep bees, insects, Insects of the Pacific Northwest, Jay Smith, John H. Lovell, Judy Haggard, Mark L. Winston, Miller, Natural Beekeeping, Peter Haggard, Queen Rearing Simplified, queens, raising, raising queens, reviews, Ross Conrad, social, social behavior, Successful Queen Rearing, Thomas D. Seeley
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Preparing for Nucs at a 700 Colony Operation
Sorting out waxed, plastic honeybee foundation and preparing nucleus (nuc) boxes with Bruce Bowen, of Bruce Bowen’s Bees, in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Continue reading
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Tagged bees, Bruce Bowen, comb, drawn, drawn comb, foundation, honeybees, Mount Vernon, Mt. Vernon, nucleus, nucs, pallets, plastic, queens, Washington
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Eggs and Larvae For A Queen
Giving a frame of eggs and larvae to a queenless beehive. The timing and luck involved in going from a frame of eggs and larvae to a laying queen Continue reading
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Tagged Beekeeping, bees, cells, comb, congreation area, drones, eggs, frame, honeybee, Hopkins, larva, larvae, queen cell, queenless, queens, timing
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