It was a year ago, May 9, that I brought my first hive of bees home. I went into the fall with three hives and came out this spring with three. 100% overwintering success! This week I went back into the hives after notching frames last week and found queen cells. Those two hives were each split into 4 hives including the artificial swarm. I currently have 3 hives with queens and 7 hives waiting to be checked at the end of May for new laying queens. I have one more hive to split this week because it was notched later than the other two.
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| 2 Artificial swarms and 5 splits with queen cells |
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| The 3 original hives. The tallest one in picture still needs to be split this week. The other 2 are splits with queen cells, queens should be emerging today. Will check all the splits end of May for new laying On The Spot queens. |
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| Honeybee on Grape Hyacinth in my yard. |
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