Comments for Bee Progress

Comment on Bee Packages Coming March 25th by Dee Carlson

Dee Carlson — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:03:24 +0000

Sorry you got off to such a rough start with your first year of beekeeping. That would be hard with not much support around either. We took a class at our local college, had a friend doing it too and plunged in. We had a farily decent year for just starting, but with many questions and frustrations along the way. Iowa had the worst honey production year since they have been keeping records and boy has it been a rough winter. I just started a blog if you are interested at http://busybeeswax.blogspot.com. This has been a year for learning lots of new things.

Comment on Could You, Should You Keep Bees by Keith

Keith — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:41:22 +0000

I am not the person to ask. I’ve seen lots of talk where people make good money, but I’ve also heard stories where it was a total bust. There is a lot of hard work and investment that goes into a bee business. I have heard that bees are in short supply because of CCD, so you can make money if you have bees, but you will have the same problems as other beekeepers. It is good that you have a customer ready and waiting so you can start with a few dozen hives and then built up.

Good luck.

Comment on Could You, Should You Keep Bees by Jim

Jim — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:30:05 +0000

I am thinking of starting a bee hive for commerical perpous. I would like to raise bees to polinate farmers crops and sell honey. I have a realtive who has farm land in which we could do this together. What do you think of a market for polinating farmers crops?

Comment on Italian, Carniolan or Russian? by Keith

Keith — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:08:33 +0000

I “borrowed” the pictures, mostly from wikipedia.org. I can’t give you permission.

Keith

Comment on Italian, Carniolan or Russian? by Barbara Krecic

Barbara Krecic — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:03:59 +0000

May I have your permission to use your photos to teach our new beekeepers about the different races of honeybees? I’l like to use them in our newsletter.
I will not do so until I hear from you.
Thank you,
Barbara

Comment on Ethel R.I.P. by Barbara's Spot on the Blog

Barbara's Spot on the Blog — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:24:15 +0000

My beekeeping supplier set me up with a sugar powder mixed with an AFB treatment to do this fall. I hadn't read this in my books but apparently the fall when robbing happens a lot is when AFB is most often picked up and spread around.
I'm so sorry to hear of poor Ethel not making it. She really did struggle all summer to make a comeback. Let's hope her robbed honey is in your other hive and giving those bees the winter feed that they'll need.

Comment on Update on Ethel (Is she alive?) by Keith

Keith — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:55:43 +0000

The bees don't seem to notice. I checked last night, just before dark and the super was still bull of bees.

Comment on Update on Ethel (Is she alive?) by Barbara's Spot on the Blog

Barbara's Spot on the Blog — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:25:16 +0000

I did ask this question so here's what I was told: The V goes on the downside of the escape.

Comment on The three hives by Barbara's Spot on the Blog

Barbara's Spot on the Blog — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:34:31 +0000

Sorry to hear some of your hives are problematic. I'm glad to hear the Martha hive has come through its ordeal. I've had problems with requeening myself and swarm cells. I hope they can now build up for winter.

Comment on My Three Aunts by Barbara's Spot on the Blog

Barbara's Spot on the Blog — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:46:58 +0000

I did wonder how you chose your hive names so now the mystery is solved. How nice to have 3 aunts!