I was contacted this morning by the Prop Department at The Met with a request for my hand dipped pure beeswax candles asap.
I had a couple dozen of candles on hand, that I had dipped in the dead of winter last year. So I shipped a dozen out via FedEx, just in time for the perfomance of The Classic Quadrophenia by Pete Townshend. Rock on The Met, Rock on Pete!
Six-pound swarm hived today. Long story, friend’s best intentions to prevent a swarm by preemptive split of the hive that looked to be preparing to swarm, except for one slight detail: One of the splits never moved away from original position. All foragers returned to original position, half the space previously available. As can be seen, swarm ensued next day, early afternoon. Luckily it was so heavy they landed on a relatively low branch, and could be safely gathered, and hived. Fun project!
Summer 2015 Honey has arrived. Here’s a short video of the extractor in action.
This is a great apiary, Three splits from this site this year, (2 visible,) third healthy offsite.
So there were three survivors here this spring now five.
Nevermind there’s all of High School to go through, my young niece has her sights set on Michigan State. Why argue?
Go Green!
Sunny day, work is done time to film my busy bees at work. This was captured in WVGA format at 240 frames per second, Playback speed ~24 frames per second, (10% speed)
Audio good in beginning but fails half way through video, pardon the noise.
It was a Cold February, and I was a bit apprehensive as I hiked
out to check on these three hives on Wednesday. In the end was pleasantly surprised to find all three alive and well.
My sister sent me this link. 
I found it very interesting. I think I should: link_share
The last few weeks have been exciting. Bringing in the supers full of honey. A very good honey flow . Preparing the hives for winter now.