2022 pumpkin patch beehives

Trying to fix a failing beehive

JC scooping bees.

Moving Honeybee colonies to pollinate pumpkins

Very easy swarm to catch

Catalpas trees are blooming. Bees are living the flowers.

Loading nucs for new beekeepers. Lost bees are returning to weaker nucs to boast their number.

Open feeding beehives.

Cleaning out brood frames full of honey and feeding honeybees at the same time.

Open feeding honeybees

Unloading beehives after returning from CA

Getting an established colony out of a swarm trap

I drove into a bee swarm and then it was in my pocket.

1st Swarm 17 March 2017

Putting vacuumed bees in a laying worker hive 22 June 2016

My beehive lids

Screen bottom board with oil tray

Saving seeds from my buckwheat

Moving plants into the garden for winter

Just a short tour of my pollinator field Part 2 of 2

Just a short tour of my pollinator field Part 1 of 2

Moving observation hive into the house with cold swarm Part 2 of 2

Moving observation hive into the house with cold swarm Part 1 of 2

Winter hive entrance inspection

Buckwheat that I planted on 2 Sept 2014.

Feeding bees using 9 jar feeder

bees cleaning up

queen fly off 2

queen fly off

overhauling smoker