Shady Lane BeesNot much to write lately. The bees are well fed and snug in their bed (boxes) for a long winter’s nap (not really, they don’t …
Read More »Whidbey Bees Orientation Flights
Honey bees getting out on a wonderfully sunny cool day taking orientation flights
Read More »Bee-ing A Bit Bee-hind
Last year we started harvesting honey about July 5th – this year, we’re behind. Like last year, the blackberries bloomed early but this year, after …
Read More »Removing Honey Bees From A Tree
Removing Honey Bees From A Tree on Whidbey Island
Read More »Candling A Queen Cell
Last queen of the batch ..just wanted to make sure she’s viable and sure enough, she’s moving around and it looks like she’s trying to …
Read More »Whidbey Queens Emerged
A few pictures of the queens from batch QR6. These emerged on 5/10 and most will be placed into mating nucs today and tomorrow. These …
Read More »A Few Good Queens
Snapped a few pictures of some newly emerged virgin queens. Most of these have been distributed to others or to some of my hives. I …
Read More »Grafting Larva To Rear Queens
How do you rear queens? When a queen lays and egg, about 4 days it hatches in and is now a larva. We take a …
Read More »Introducing Virgin Queens
Instructions for introducing virgin queens into hives, splits, and nucleus colonies.
Read More »Introducing Queen Cells
How to introduce 48 hour and capped queen cells into your hive, split, or nucleus colony.
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