May 21, 2012 - 9 a.m.

Backyard Bees
Hive swarmed.  Hive had two deeps, which was too much space.  Put bees in one deep and started feeding sugar water.  Put the deep frames in the freezer.

One of the hives perished.  Went through the hive components, salvaged one complete medium super and one deep hive body.  Put the recovered honey super in tbe freezer.

May 20, 2012 - 10 AM

Beta Hive
Harvested 2 medium supers, put 2 empty supers back on hive. Extracted the honey today and it is currently settling. Should be able to bottle the honey on Monday or Tuesday.

The empty supers are in the backyard and the bees are cleaning them.

Need to check on backyard bees this week.

Bottled 26 pint jars and 8 quart jars from the harvest.

Beta Hive Incident

The hive was completely knocked off the hive stand and was in pieces on the ground.  More info later...

10 September, 2011

It was about 83º at the Bee Yard in the country.

Beta Hive
The hive had two honey supers. I removed nine frames from one super and 2 frames from the second honey super. I left the remaining frames in the super and added empty frames to fill it up.

Back Yard Bees

Epsilon Hive
The hive had two honey supers. I removed both honey supers.

Eta Hive
No activity from hive. Will look into it tomorrow.

Zeta Hive
Fair amount of activity, will look into that hive tomorrow.


Extracted the honey and it fills the 5 gallon honey bucket to the top lip. I will let it settle and bottle honey on Monday or so.

The harvest filled 26 pint jars and 8 quart jars.


Eta Hive is no more. The hive failed to flourish for whatever reason. I will keep a closer watch on the remaining hives

3 July, 2011

It was 96 degrees at the Backyard Bees.

Epsilon

Zeta

Eta

Honey Harvest from June 26, 2011

The harvest from June 26 yielded 25 pint jars and 5 quart jars of honey. Thats about 45 pounds of honey.

Colors of the Honey harvest 2011

Variety of colors of honey harvested this year.