Regular Meeting – Checking for Queens
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting this Saturday. Bring show-and-tell stuff. We will be checking for queens in our five nucleus colonies and checking our two big colonies to ensure they have enough room to pack honey away. Our next module is the honey harvest sometime in mid to late June. See you soon.
Regular Meeting – Equalizing Once Again
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting this Saturday. We will be equalizing once again and checking for the honey flow. Blackberries will open soon and all colonies need to be ready to take advantage of the largest honey flow of the year. Also, we will be selecting a colony to deliver to Erin2. Also, if our new shed is […]
Regular Meeting
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaHi folks! We will meet Saturday at 10 am unless it is raining heavily. If raining, we will postpone until the afternoon. Keep an eye on WhatsApp for updates. Either way, the colonies need to be checked because it has been two weeks and queenless or sick colonies need to be fixed.
Regular Meeting
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaHello Everyone! Regular meeting this Saturday on all colonies. Honey flow is on so the stronger colonies might need their second super. See you soon!
Regular meeting – Checking bees and Varrao rolls
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting to check bee health, honey production, and to roll all colonies for Varroa.
Regular Meeting – With Bald-faced Hornets
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting. Checking all colonies for queen rite and honey production. Also dissecting bald-faced hornet's nest - compliments of Maddy.
Regular Meeting – First Honey Harvest of the Year !!
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting consisting of Module 10 - Honey Harvest, followed by our first honey harvest of the year! Very exciting. Bring a bee suit, veil, smoker, and BEE BRUSH to help remove honey from the hive. We will be using a motorized honey extractor so we should be done by noon. Everyone takes home a […]
Regular meeting. Check for swarming. Check if enough empty space in honey supers
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting to see if the colonies are swarming. Also check to make sure there is at least a half box of empty frames in the honey super. If not, under super. We are not harvesting until the week of August 15.
Regular Meeting
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaTwo weeks to go before our final harvest and start of feed and medication. We will be checking for brood disease and honey stores this week.
Regular Meeting – Fall Preparation Discussion
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaAugust 15 is the end of the current season and the start of the next season. What a beekeeper does at this time is essential to ensure colonies survive over winter and are productive the following season. Check out Module 11 - Fall Preparation in the Education section of this website before coming out this […]
Regular Meeting – Feed, Queen, Varroa Check
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting this week. We check all colonies for feed, a laying queen, and disease. We will also roll six colonies for Varroa. It is an important task that requires detail and thoroughness.
Regular meeting – Feed and Formic Acid Pads
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting. We need to feed syrup and apply the second of four formic acid pads. The first treatment was applied Monday of this week. We will apply 4 treatments, 5 days apart.