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The City Bee and the Country Bee

In a land – not so far away, there lived a hive (or 8) of honeybees. These honeybees were known as “city bees”.

They were well-versed in finding the flowers, pollen and nectar that were planted around humans’ homes and parks. They visited trees, flower gardens, vegetable gardens and all sorts of city-places to find […]

Cutout by the Lake

I received a call for honeybees that were located in a home – near a local lake in a gated community. The home is about 25+ years old. Upon inspection – I determined that the bees were (luckily) located above the fascia board near the roof line. the variable being – how high into the […]

New Trap-Out Started

Here are photos from a trap-out that was started this morning. These bees were VERY gentle. I believe that they have been here under 72 hours, and are still in comb-building mode – as there were NO foragers exiting & returning.

 

 

 

 

And a MORE close up shot:

 

 

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Thank You Rex & Shannon

Formal Name Change – Harmony Hollow Apiaries

Hawk’s Nest has formally changed. Our new name is: Harmony Hollow Apiaries – a division of Bohemian Utopia.

Trap Out nuc – Brought Home

I went back to last week’s trap-out site last night and gathered the nuc-box and brought all the ladies home.

Today, I checked on them – and they seem to be doing very well. They have not drawn out any more comb (I had provided them a frame of comb/eggs) – but I had removed […]

Turning off comments

Sorry folks… There are too many ‘bots’ – and I’m getting about 50-100 spam comments per day. Turning off comments until WordPress can figure out a better method to protect site owners.