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*Honey Bee Arrival*

*Honey Bee Arrival*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Okay…I’m getting ready for the advent of the next stage of my honey bee attempt….. I’m going to try this again….. I’m scheduled to pick up my bees this weekend….. I’ll be picking up two nuc’s (five-frame bee-starter kits)….. I’m in the pre-bee prep-zone head-space….. Their custom-made deck has (unfortunately) become a catch all for assorted farm stuff….. I need to use what’s necessary…and find alternate homes for the rest….. I’m hoping for…

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——-Bees…Again——-

——-Bees…Again——-

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Well…Here Goes….. I’m about to do it again….. I love the little bastards…(they scare me so)…(I feel like I owe it to Mother Nature to keep trying)….. Down here in sunny sub-tropical Florida…starting up new bee hives is usually done after the commercial citrus bloom is completed….. …..when the beekeepers have more time to evaluate their hives…make new ones…and follow the blooming spring…as it follows the sun’s seasonal warming northward….. If you think…

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*****Bee Target*****

*****Bee Target*****

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I’d forgotten to mention….. Remember the recent dressage show that I went to with Ester….. It was an over-cast day…not super hot…maybe a little humid…but relatively pleasant for Florida….. There’s a reason I am telling you this….. …..while I was out there…in a large open field…with everyone else….. I had a honey bee land on my upper arm…and I watched…as she very deliberately…got into position…and stung me(?)….. *****I was really surprised***** I was…

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…….Newbies…….

…….Newbies…….

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** It’s time…………. …..(again)…… I’ve got the supplies…I’ve got the equipment…I’ve got the clothes…I’ve got the hat….. I also have a new (as yet unused) deck….. …..(well…un-used by the bees anyway)….. …..the deck was made…specifically for my hives….. Now…I need…the bees….. I was just called by the Florida State Department of Agriculture for their annual survey about how many hives I’m currently working….. …..it was so sad to say………….none….. I understand their need to…

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***To Bee ~~~ Or Not To Bee***

***To Bee ~~~ Or Not To Bee***

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** I’ve been thinking….. …..(it’s never too early…or late…for a good muse or two)….. I was thinking that I should re-visit the re-population of my honeybee hives (again)….. …..you know…..Hope Springs Eternal…..and all that….. But it’s been so hard keeping the little boogers here….. I really want to keep the hives populated and thriving….. In the past…..I’ve done that…..but they keep absconding…

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***To Bee or not To Bee***

***To Bee or not To Bee***

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It’s that time of year…..well not quite yet….. …..but soon….. Do I?………….Or Don’t I?…..start up my hives…..?….. …..again….. If you remember…..last year I had a lot of false starts….. I was just about to buy the start-up honey bee nucs….. …..and then the Covid-19 Pandemic hit….. …..and the murder hornets arrived (on the U.S.’s west coast)-(and as far as I know they aren’t here on the east coast…..yet)….. …..I tried…..I got delayed…..I tried some more…..it got too hot…..I gave up……..

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Murder Hornets?…..C’mon!

Murder Hornets?…..C’mon!

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Bees have been around……..like……..forever……. Who am I to think I could better plan what’s best for them……. BOTH of my hives have abandoned me and are still empty. But why??? Earlier when I had three consecutive puppy litters in a row….. …..I wasn’t able to keep up with giving them sugar syrup on a regular basis….. …..but I thought they were well-established with new brood & stored honey….. …..I figured they had to do their part too (just a little…

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~Twenty Minutes To Go~

~Twenty Minutes To Go~

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I made myself a promise that I would post every two days… …..and that I would aim at 300 words per post… I’ve been squeaking in right before midnight all through the Holidays… I’m not about to miss today’s cut-off… Is this post a literary masterpiece? Nope. Are any of them? HA! But the critters are fed… The sink’s fairly devoid of dirty dishes… Everyone who would stand still long enough has been medicated… …..and Molly’s in season… …..and Ben…

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Waging War On Robber Bees

Waging War On Robber Bees

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I’ve taken on the battle… I will win this war… I will… …..but whenever I feed sugar-syrup to my hives, I’ve discovered that they are almost immediately under attack from other, wild honey bees (no doubt subsequent generations from my past, absconded hive residents). However if left unchecked, an organized robber bee horde can clean out any residential bee hive very, very quickly. …….and everybody gets into a very, very bad mood……. I had a planned game strategy this week…

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Robber Bees

Robber Bees

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Honey bees are inherent hoarders… Honey…….is what they like to hoard…….their own…….as well as others… They organize hits and raids on other bee hives… ………….it’s a bee-thing. *****Robber Bees Explained*****(they are so mean) The trick is to have a strong enough hive who is able to protect itself & ward off other robber bees. They need to be able to protect their own hive along with its honey stores. Otherwise there will be honey-loss along with the loss of life…

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