Category Archives: Queens

A New Queen, Start of Summer and Barcodes on Bees

By Harry Edwards | Published: June 26, 2009
Summer is bearing down on us quickly as we’ve just finished a great stretch of warm weather and multiple nectar flows. We’re in last half of the Himalayan blackberry bloom, not to mention everything else that’s been coming up over the last month–lupin, crimson clover, scotch broom, vetch, hawthorns, and most recently, escallonia. Seattle Hives [...]
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Progress in Hive 1

By Harry Edwards | Published: April 24, 2008
With all the excitement around the new bee boxes I installed last week I haven’t forgotten my sole surviving hive from last year. It’s been over two weeks since I last checked in on this colony. Date: 4/22/2008; Time: 4:00pmWeather: Sunny, 53 degrees, slight breeze Not surprisingly the brood nest has moved up into the [...]
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First Hive Inspection

By Harry Edwards | Published: April 23, 2008
Here’s a quick look into one of the hives I installed last week.
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Hiving Day

By Harry Edwards | Published: April 17, 2008
Getting new bee packages is a little like Christmas. I picked up my three from Beez Neez in Snohomish yesterday and hived them in this afternoon. After being on vacation last week it’s been a really busy couple of nights assembling frames, nailing and painting new deeps and cleaning old hive parts and feeders. Some [...]
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The Bees Are Flying

By Harry Edwards | Published: April 4, 2008
The good weather had the bees flying this week (until today) so I decided to make a quick check yesterday afternoon to see how the queen is doing: Time: 4:00pmWeather: Sunny, 60 degrees, slight breeze Found the queen on frame #6. This seems to be her favorite place (top photo). Spotted several batches of freshly [...]
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The Queen and Her Retinue

By Harry Edwards | Published: March 23, 2008
Yesterday was too nice a Saturday afternoon not to take a quick peek in the only active colony in the beeyard: Time: 3:30pmWeather: Sunny, 58 degrees, no wind Population seems to be up from my last visit 10 days ago–I estimate about 3,500 bees (just over 1000 per frame). Found the queen on frame #6 [...]
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