Beekeeping it’s the bee’s knees

Hive 1 going really well, saw signs of swarming early on, stopped that in its tracks. Queen is still doing her thing and honey supers are starting to take shape.
Hive 2 not great. Little no capped brood, swarm cells on the botttom of several frames. I think my queen is toast in that frame. Maybe too late to intro a queen?

 

Pull a frame from the other hive with eggs and capped brood , eggs that look like u’s(12-24 hr hatched see if they will make ya a new queen,

 

Ok I'll give that a go! Thanks for the tip!

 

I mark my frame with eggs and then check in 7 days should have capped queen cells if they need a queen. I then pick the 2 nicest and biggest queen cells. And cull the rest

 

How did it do

 

Sorry it has been busy! But new queen is in the hive, saw her doing her thin last time I was in there!

 

Do you hire someone to care for your hives when you first started and then learn it for yourself? I’ve been becoming more and more interested over last couple years or so

 

I did not, just got the bees and started learning, was told when I started if you mess up the bees will fix it and keep being bees. I did read a lot and watch a ton of you tubes. Got in and was hooked

 

That’s great

 

^this....I went in knowing little to nothing and just learned along the way and took tips from the farmer down the road from me who has ample amount of experience.

Thanks again! Im going in tomorrow to check on them and test for mites...last check for mites there was 1 mite out of the 100-200 I scooped up. Hopefully I did it right haha.
I did the mason jar, powdered sugar method.

 

Sounds about right

 

Painted some new hives

 

Hi all I know most of you are still on winter but I cracked my hives today, brooding up nice with some drones capping

 

Very nice. I have 2 nucs ordered for May 24 pickup, to replace total losses from last winter.
Looking soooooo fwd to getting bees again. Family and neighbors really miss em

 

Well i guess y'all can count me in I am an Amateur beekeeper. We still have a few hives caught all bees here on farm. We were talking today about setting out some traps I built some to hold frames

 

That is awesome

 

I like my swarm queens, genetics from the area always do better

 

Last spring traps working

 

I have swarm traps , but want to try the flower pots, the state here uses them in the port

 

Grass is seeding out weeds are blooming bees are working down here [south Texas] I haven't seen flower pot traps I have a few swarm traps and nuc traps that will be going out soon We lost a few in the cold weather and 1 hive split Time for me to get busy hahahahha