This last Saturday late in the afternoon one of my hives swarmed. This happens when the hive becomes too small for so many bees. This is also the honey bees’ natural way of reproducing. The queen takes approximately half of the hive and SWARMS. They’ll land on a tree branch or pretty much anything, but…
Category: Beekeeping
Captured Swarm of Feral Bees
Here are a few hives we have at the Puget Island site. We have a fewother sites with a total of 18 hives. About five of those hives areswarms caught or hives that are slower growing and will not beproducing honey this season. If you look closely the upper boxes areshallower, those boxes are honey…
Birds, Bees and Boats!!
This has been a busy spring. We have an Osprey family happening. We’ve caught several swarms of honey bees and hoping for a wonderful harvest of raw honey. And one of my most favorite things, sailing the seven seas … which are right in front of my house!