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Bees are amazing and spring is the best time to start an apiary. If you've every considered starting your own bee yard to support these wonderful creatures, here's an open source resource to help you.

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A bit of bee video from a couple of days ago. They're finding some bright orange/yellow pollen and probably still working the goldenrod.

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BEE HIVE ARCHITECT Matt Somerville. A carpenter by trade, Somerville is also a committed conservationist, having spent the last 14 years building and installing approximately 800 homes for the dwindling insect populations around the English countryside. #ecology #bee #errtlings #apiary #insect

Our girls are getting smaller
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Honeybee on pink flower macro photograph

The pollinators
Fiercely fly to feed the world
Give them room to work

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September 9, 2025

Color image of a bee harvestng from a flowering fall bloom, Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, USA. The image shows a close view of a bee harvesting from a bright yellow goldenrod flower on a green stem, hanging upside down while working hard to harvest for fall storage.

There she is. Dressed in green. In all her glory. The Queen 👑 #InsectThursday 🐝 📍Tim Regan's bees in Killarney #Kerry 📸me #nature #photography #bees #honey #apiary #Ireland #autumn

The East hive and the West hive on Friday. Some light colored and yellow pollen being found somewhere. I'm starting to see signs of yellow on some goldenrod so they'll be bringing that nectar in soon and fanning the cheesy socks smell out of the hives. 🧀🧦

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I changed out the extended-release oxalic acid pads. These will go though October and get removed. It's 50/50 glycerin and oxalic acid by weight in a cellulose fiber pad to control varroa.

I pulled the supers that were put back to clean up, the bees in the 'White' hive decided to store more honey in theirs instead of the almost empty upper brood boxes. I left those frames out to be robbed.

The goldenrod looks like it will start blooming in about a week.

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A photo of 5 Langstroth type beehives next to each other on a long hive stand. Closer to the camera is a single stand with a deep box that has 10 medium frames in it. It is on it's side with the frames vertical and bees are robbing some honey that was stored in by bees that were suppose to be cleaning it up after it was extracted. From the left, the second, third, and fifth hive have medium super boxes on them, the first and fourth hive do not have supers on them. The first hive, "West", contains the swarm caught on July 17 that was combined with the queenless colony residing in it. The fourth hive, "White", was started with a walk-away split of 2 frames of bees and brood on April 24 in a 5-frame nuc which had a virgin queen added to it when found a day later.

This little lady was trying to hypnotise me.

https://www.pictorem.com/2427785/honeybee-on-yellow-fennel-flower/

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Honeybee on top of a yellow fennel flower with a soft green-yellow background macro photograph

I read that bees can recognize their caretakers. I am the one who makes sure they have fresh water and syrup when needed.

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Honeybee drinking from blue dish macro photograph

A honeybee lady drinking from her new blue bird bath

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A honeybee lady drinking from her new blue bird bath macro photography

This morning I took out the double-screened divider that was below the July swarm. Capped brood and larvae so there is a laying queen in there. Bottom box had quite a few bees so there was probably some drift when I put the swarm in the top box. They have about 10 weeks or so to fill up enough reserves for winter and there's still some full capped frames of honey in there and all but two frames are old comb.

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A closeup photo showing bees on brood comb and open cells of larvae. There is a male drone bee near the top of the photo that is larger with big eyes.

The same frame of brood not close up. Smaller larvae and stored nectar is visible near the bottom of the photo. The frame is oriented sideways with it's top to the right.

A closeup of a langstroth beehive frame in the hive looking down from the space of two frames removed. There is capped brood visible in the small area that is somewhat in focus and lots of bees. The double screened dividing board can be seen below.

A photo showing the front of the hive after it is reassembled. There are bees around the area where the entrance to the upper box used to be which is above the small roof over the normal entrance of the bottom box. They are mostly returning foragers and some have pollen visible. 3 of the other hives are visible to the right on the hive stand.

Today's beekeeping was to pull partial or full deep frames of honey out of the top box of the formerly Green Nuc. I took out 5 new frames of honey and 1 old frame that looked like it was re-capped or partially and had thick comb so it needed a shaving anyway. I replaced the frames for now with some freshly re-waxed acorn foundation from the bait hive. The plan is to start extracting today or soon! I have two mediums and these 6 deep frames.

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Six deep langstoth bee hive frames spaced apart in a deep box. They are all partially capped with honey except one that had about a dozen drone cells that were scraped off. The bees swarmed a few weeks ago but they have lots of resources and will fill their upper deep up this fall with mostly goldenrod which I don't particularly like for honey.

The six new empty foundation frames in the hive. There were 4 frames of honey left on the outsides. The empty frames will be replaced with the frames with comb when the extracting is done and they can clean those up inside the hive.

The bees all eventually moved into the top box but I think there was some drift too and the bottom box got more active. The box has comb on all frames except 2 that are bare foundation so not much has to be done and I think there are enough bees they'll be ok before winter. There's lots of honey and pollen in the hive and they are finding pollen somewhere I've noticed since they were moved in plus I have a pollen patty in there.

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I moved the swarm bees into the top box of the West hive. They had beautifully built comb that wasn't on the foundation and going the opposite direction. There was no brood so I fetched the old frames with comb I had taken out, put those back in, and shook bees off the comb I cut and dumped bees and wren sticks into the hive. Then I set the bait hive on top so bees could go back into it... then I shook, tapped, banged bees out and put the bait hive indoors.

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A view inside a bee bait hive from above, there is one frame left in the hive, it is the frame on the back wall that was spaced away from the back wall. There are bees on wax comb that is built on the bottom of the frames. There are small twigs or sticks in the bottom of the hive below the entrance from a house wren that was building a house before the entrance was modified to keep him out. There is some comb beginning to be built on the foundation of the frame.

A view from above the hive frame, there is cross comb that has been built between the frame and the back wall of the hive. There are bees on the comb.

The remaining bees in the bottom of the hive box after the comb has been cut and removed and the frame too. The leftover comb is visible on the back wall of the hive.

The bait hive on it's side on top of the hive so the bees can crawl out and into the hive. They did the opposite and started crawling back into the bait hive. The box they were moved into had some other bees but is divided from the lower box by a double screen dividing board that has it's own entrance that is visible at the bottom of the upper box.

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I moved the bait hive last night and put a diversion over the entrance that might make them re-orientate. I placed it on top of the queen-less hive that I pulled empty frames out of the top box for a nuc and put a double screen divider under it so most of the bees in that box will leave by the time I move the bait hive colony in.

I saw some bees at the nuc I put where the bait hive was. Could be foragers that were caught out overnight or just bees not orientating.

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A bee bait hive, or swarm trap, that has bees in it sitting on top of a 2 deep box hive. A square piece of plywood with standoffs has been placed over the bait hive entrance. This prevents the bees from taking off directly from the entrance which might cause them to re-orientate to the new hive location since it was about a 300 foot move, or 90 meters. The hive it's sitting on is queen-less. A double screen dividing board was placed between the boxes so the bees in the top box can exit but won't likely return because they'll fly to the normal entrance. The dividing board entrance has a small landing board which is visible above the porch like roof over the main landing board. This screen will stay in place when the bait hive colony is moved into the top box giving the bees time to get used to each others smells since the queen-less colony has laying workers making a few drones. The bait hive is strapped to the other hive.

A closeup of the entrance diversion, there are bees fanning on it's right side. It is open on both the left and right but closed top and bottom. It creates about 3/4 of an inch, or 19mm, of space over the hive entrance.

A 5 frame nuc hive hanging and strapped to the tree where the bait hive was. There are some bees on it and flying around. The frames in the hive do have some resources since they weren't completely clean or empty. There are only 4 frames in it because there was not a 5th empty frame to use and it's not likely the bait hive colony will build out 5 frames by the time I take them out.

National Urban Beekeeping Day.

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https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/national-urban-beekeeping-day/

💡Did You Know:

Honey is one of the most counterfeited foods. Known as “honey laundering”. North America banned honey imports from China for this.

Check your labels & buy local when you can. Honey is expensive for a reason. Buying cheap honey risks getting a product that is fake, lacks the same health benefits & can even be contaminated with lead and antibiotics.

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Final harvest estimate: 150 pounds! From 1 hive in an unusually early harvest. 😱🐝

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