Regular Meeting – Making a Split
Regular meeting this Saturday. We will make a split using brood and bees from multiple colonies. Please bring questions and any show and tell items! Queen rearing starts Saturday, May 1, unless raining.
Regular Meeting – Supering for the Honey Flow
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting this Saturday from 10 to noon at our Queen's Park bee yard. We will be discussing when to super for the honey flow. Then we will be checking our colonies and rolling for varroa, which is a mandatory monthly task for every successful beekeeping operation. Also, we will have an additional session for […]
Regular Meeting – Collecting and Storing Bee Pollen and Propolis
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting this Saturday with a 20 minute discussion on how to collect and store bee pollen and propolis. Check out Module 9 in the Education section of our website. We will also demonstrate both tasks on our live hives. We have several hives to check so bring a smoker, veil, and hive tool if […]
Regular Meeting – Checking New Queens we Made
Queens Park Queens Park Tennis Courts, New Westminster, British Columbia, CanadaRegular meeting this week with no scheduled discussion. So bring questions and show-and-tell items. We will be working all colonies - checking the new queens we made three weeks ago, making a split for Erin 2, and much more. See you soon.
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.