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CHECKING THE BEE TRAP

Posted by Anais Dervaes on January 17, 2011

You know that California Dreaming song? This winter day, we’ve been enjoying such gorgeously warm weather – it’s so warm the doors and windows are thrown open (sure feels…

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TREE BEE TRAP

Posted by Anais Dervaes on November 29, 2010

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MORE FREE BEES

Posted by Anais Dervaes on November 17, 2010

[caption id=”attachment_23467″ align=”aligncenter” width=”520″ caption=”Like bees to honey, the wild…

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O VARROA

Posted by Anais Dervaes on November 16, 2010

Last week I alluded to a couple of set backs…

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OBSERVATION HIVE

Posted by Anais Dervaes on October 3, 2010

The other day I slid open the garage door and this cool looking box greeted me! Of course. I…

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WATERING HOLE

Posted by Anais Dervaes on July 14, 2010

Bye bye, cool July – hello, heat! With the temps back to more normal “summer-like” weather, the critters’ water needs…

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URBAN BEES: REQUEENING

Posted by Justin on June 8, 2010

Since we captured that feral freebee swarm back in April 2007, we’ve…

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URBAN BEES VS COUNTRY BEES

Posted by Anais Dervaes on August 24, 2009

and urban bees win, well from the likes of this article they do! The national bee-keeping body has recently reported…

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HIVE MAINTENANCE

Posted by Anais Dervaes on June 4, 2009

Here’s some photos I snapped while the guys did a bit of hive work awhile back (yep, still catching up on all the goings on here on the homefront). …

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NOW THERE ARE TWO

Posted by Anais Dervaes on May 10, 2009

Off comes the top box with the second queen that they isolated a few days ago

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