Good Resource

For those of you that have kids then The Honey Files is a good science resource. There is a little evolution in it but you can skip over that.

Long time no post

Hello everyone it has been a long time since I have posted anything. It is beekeeping season again and I will try to get more posts out. My brother won a top bar hive from the Utah County Beekeepers Association and will get his equipment April 7 and his bees April 28. It will bee a new adventure for us because we have never had a top bar hive before. Please Comment if you have heard any tips about this hive.

Thanks,
Mitchell

P.S. I will not post anything this week because I will be at a Debate Tournament in Spokane, Washington this week.

Medication

Hey Guys,
Yesterday my parents went to Orem to get my medication and were talking to the guy who owns the shop and  he said that the time that I needed to medicate was when I pulled off the honey supers. So today I medicated my bees and that went better that expected so here is the process:
We took 2 pounds of powdered sugar and added it to the Duramyacin we also took the varroa strips and put them in and we also put in a protein patty. We put 1 teaspoon of the Duramyacin on the right side of the frames on the bottom box and the same on the left side. We put a varroa strip on the right third on the fourth frame and a strip on the left third of the 5th frame. We put the protein patty on the top of the second box. They had a good 7-8 frames filled with honey so they should make it through the winter. Also we have to do the Duramyacin medications every 5 days for three times so we have two more times to medicate. We also have to take out the strips 21 days after today. I will keep you updated on where they are every five days. Here are also some pictures of what was in the hive today:

Down to Three

Hey Guys,
We are now down to three boxes. Looked in the hive today and saw they were a little spread out.

Thats the update,
Mitch
P.S. There are pictures of the most recent activity.
September 17, 2011

Honey has (almost) defininite dates

Hey Guys went to Jones Bee Company today and got one hundred, Single Pound bottles. We also put ourselves for the extractor for August 6. So far we will have honey the following week. WOO-HOOO

P.S. Stacie, and the rest of you, will get the honey very soon.

Found out what was wrong

Hey Guys,
Found out what was wrong they were overcrowding so we added another box and added ventilation and that did really well. So now we know what was wrong.

Bees? Not doing so well?

Hey Guys I just wanted to say that there is something wrong, I don't know about this, or the bees are getting really protective. There is so many bees on the entrance board that you can't see the bottom. This has been going on for a few days now and when I called Jones Bees to ask about the problem the lady said that it could bee a potential problem but gave me no more information. I hope to go there and figure out what is going on.
P.S. HONEY IS ON ITS WAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!