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May 12, 2015

First 21 days of a bees life.

An amazing vid on the first 21 days of a bee, from egg to new bee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-tqiaPoS2U

Nov 22, 2014

Melting Wax

Winter is in full half effect here in Vancouver with temps hovering around 8 degrees Celsius in the daytime with it ...

Mar 18, 2013

Spring Is Here...maybe

Exciting news! all 4 hives survived the blah Vancouver winter. several inches of snow for a day or 2, and temperature...

Oct 9, 2012

Mite-away treatment

Here is what is happening as of Sept 22/2012 in my Hives.  I decided to treat my hives going into the winter with Mit...

Aug 22, 2012

Nuclear wax?

So I pulled of the honey supers from the 2 hives at the community garden and on one of the hives there was 1 super fu...

Jul 16, 2012

Summer picture post

Man I have been busy this summer!   The bees are still getting the loving they so deserve even after trying to kill m...

Jun 11, 2012

Missing Queens

Its been a while since I last posted and it isn't because there isn't anything happening with the hives or I have giv...

Apr 24, 2012

Time To Split, Maybe?

Things have been going well with the bees lately. Both the Blue and Brown hive at home have rebounded from their wint...

Apr 11, 2012

New Hive at Still Creek

Friday April 6 was the day we installed the first of 2 new hives at Still Creek Community Garden.  The day was lookin...

Mar 27, 2012

1st spring inspection year 2

This weekend was amazing!  The sun was shining and the temperatures were hovering at a balmy 13-15 Celsius (59 F)  pe...

Mar 19, 2012

2 new hives for 2012 !

Urban Beekeeping in Vancouver has rules. Not too many but they do limit the amount of Hives you can keep on a residen...

Feb 6, 2012

Spring is here already?

Saturday February 4th was a beautiful day to crack open the hives and see what is going on with each of the colonies....

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