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Bee season 2012
As you can see below we have already been very busy bees this year!
5/3/2012
THIRD SWARM OF THE SEASON!!
Well guess this is why they say "Two out of three ain't bad" Heard from our ole friend Barry Allen this morning! We met Barry last year when we removed 2 hives from his Father's barn and his house. Barry sent a picture of a huge swarm that had landed on a bush in front of his house yesterday evening. Barry had tried to call yesterday when he noticed it but we had missed the call. By the time he returned home and called us back around 5 they had already flown :-(
4/29/2012
SECOND Swarm of the season and not even May yet!
My neighbor Jan Bash "2 houses down" came down to ask if we wanted a swarm he has found in his Blackberry Patch this evening.(As you can see from the picture above we don't live in very close quarters round these parts. For clarity sake this is about a mile past the silos you see at my "next door" neighbors house.) Jan keeps a couple of hives of his own, one of them was full and he had already hived another swarm for the empty one earlier that evening.
4/17/2012
First swarm of the season!
Three days later I got a text from Dave Kiger with a picture attached. The picture showed a swarm that had landed on the same wall where we had removed the nest(Hive) from 3 days ago !
4/14/2012
First "Cut-out" of the season!
WOW! what a strong hive for this time of year. We would like to thank Dave Kiger and the Kiger family for helping to "Save the Bees" and calling us to remove the nest(Hive) of bees that was living in their Cattle Barn ...and for being either crazy, brave or curious enough to take a video of the process.
Click Here to download the Video!
Bee Season 2011
We would like to thank the Allen family their contribution to saving the bees by calling us to remove 2 hives in Sabina back in June 2011. One of the hives got infested with wax moth last fall and perished. The other is still going strong, strong enough to have to be split into 2 hives early in 2012!
.......We would also like to thank our neighbors, the Morris family, for another of the residents to our apiary last this year. The second week of May 2011 we came home one evening at about 11:00PM to find a note on the door. It said that there were a bunch of bees on a sign in front of their house. We collected the swarm (about 10lbs!!) and gave them a home in our apiary. They are still going strong and were also split into 2 hives early in 2012.