I Built Them a Buffet
Wasps stripped our new queen’s colony back to a few dozen bees, and it turns out we’d left them a snack. What we did, what we got wrong, and how it all traces back to a split that went sideways in June.
winter beekeeping
Thirteen Ways to Treat Varroa, and Why We Reach for Apiguard
The home apiary. Three hives and a new nuc, as of this week. We ordered the Apiguard yesterday. It hasn’t landed yet, and for once that’s useful, because it means there’s still time to do a proper mite count before anything goes near a hive. Three hives now, and a new nuc that turned up … Read more