Author Archives: libhart

Bee Supply

By | November 22, 2015

I’ve been noodling on how to write this post for a while, knowing there was an opinionated idea in my head I wanted to get out, but not knowing very well how to articulate it.  Here is my attempt. It occurs to me the reader may need a bit of background regarding the topic to […]

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2013 - What's Happened So Far

By | June 8, 2013

I will label these hives, I will, I will, I will…someday. All 8 hives survived the winter.  One of these was a nuc.  I sold that nuc to a friend.  One hive then had swarm cells on multiple frames.  I made two nucs from those, both mated successfully.  After it mated I gave one of […]

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Location As a Management Tool

By | June 8, 2013

I haven’t logged into the blog in a while and found this post with nothing but a title staring back at me.  I guess I was thinking ahead at some point in the past…amazing. As the real estate adage goes, location, location, location.  Jumping a bit, when bees have trouble with disease or queen mating […]

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Research, Surveys, and Opinions

By | January 9, 2013

Today at the ABF Convention, I attended a presentation on the benefits of quality queens.  Not that this isn’t obvious, but experimental data was reviewed proving quantitative ways of measuring queen quality.  It wasn’t really very practical for in-the-field beekeepers, but it was interesting nonetheless. Part of the presentation cited this study by van Engelsdorp, […]

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1.7.13

By | January 6, 2013

Quite a week planned.  PA Farm Show this week and I’ll be helping with the Learning Center on Tuesday.  The rest of the week I’ll be attending the North American Beekeeping Conference in Hershey.  I normally wouldn’t pay to get to a conference and then pay for the conference, but in this case it’s so […]

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