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July 2, 2008

Bee Tree and More Books

I had a call yesterday to come get some Killer Bees out of a tree. The caller said that the bees were attacking a bunch of people and that a dog down the street was killed by those bees.
I live in Pensacola, Florida, which is in the northwest of the state. The only African […]

July 1, 2008

Books

I have been almost frustrated with the rain lately. I have not been able to check my bees since I pulled honey and extracted. There have been things come along to keep me occupied such as; mowing grass here at the house, getting the inside of the house straighted up for company the week of […]

June 23, 2008

Mid-Summer Meeting

I finally got off to Orlando. I was tired after extracting the honey. I didn’t get off as early as I had hoped, but I still got down there about 7:00 pm. I found the meeting place so I could go to it fairly easily the next day, June 13.
I was there at 15 minutes […]

June 20, 2008

Moving Bees to Palmetto

I decided to move my bees on June 11 in the morning, so I called my other young beekeeper to give him a chance to learn about moving bees. We made arrangements to meet at his house in Seminole, AL. about 7:30 in the morning. Along with Ed and his son, we piled into my […]

June 10, 2008

Planning Is Important

I was on vacation for two weeks with my wife and siblings. When there was a lull in the festivities, I had plenty of time to think about my bees. I had decided to move bees when I got back. I wanted to move 6 hives to a Palmetto location where I have an apiary […]

May 20, 2008

Another Disappointment

I did go to the apiaries to pull honey with my young beekeeper. I was expecting about 30-40 supers of honey and only collected five. I have two more that I can pull when I take an empty super to replace the full ones. This one hive is very strong. I split it one time […]

May 13, 2008

Bees and Honey Supers

There are actually three ways to clear bees from honey supers. (1) Use Bee Go which is very smelly and can keep everyone out of your truck for 2-3 months, or use Fischer’s Bee-Quick which has hardly any smell at all, (2) use a bee brush to brush the bees off each frame, and (3) […]

March 25, 2008

Master Beekeeping College

This was the first Beekeeping College of this kind in Florida. It was held on March 13-15 in Apopka, FL. Thursday 13th was for the experienced beekeepers. We had some lectures and then we went to the bee yard and had a test on lighting a smoker and keeping it lit for […]

November 12, 2007

Pulling Honey

After the state convention, I spent couple of days with my son’s family in Orlando, FL. We played golf until about 1:15 Monday afternoon. That’s when I started back home to Pensacola. I had already planned to pull honey on the way home.
I spent the night at a friend’s home in Chipley. […]

October 20, 2007

Three Honeys

There are three honeys that I want to talk about. Wildflower, Gallberry, and Tupelo. The reason is I get the question quite frequently, “How do you know what is what?”
The answer is simply that I help the bees decide what nectar to collect. Each hive will work on one nectar source at a […]