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Beginner beehives in Llano county  |
Bruce & Carol Texas Both of our hives seem to be doing well and I got a couple of pictures of bees busy doing what bees do best. We are not sure how the honey will taste from these flowers, but we also have bee brush on our property. It just seems we have a huge quantity of these flowers. I have heard some beekeepers say honey from these flowers can be bitter while others say it is just a more 'robust' honey. I guess we will see. |
| Gerald Clough |
Gerald Clough Texas Well, here I am. First hive, first bees. Nothing backing me up but the Centex Beekeepers Association one-day school and a lot of reading. Picked up my first package of Beeweavers on May 4 and installed them in a TBH. Today, May 7, I pulled the queen cage and saw that they had freed her and were making comb. With those times and three or four more entries to install and check feeders, I've been maybe five or six times in the hive. I had read some older comments on some discussion sites about Beeweavers bees being "hot." Well, I have yet to need any gear at all. It's been tee-shirt work all the way, and they've tolerated my clumsy newbee skills, even when I crushed a few of them. I didn't even spray the cage box to pull the queen and travel feeder. And I've used a little smoke since, but I get the impression it wasn't important. I can't imagine bees being more tolerant than that. |
| got my package installed , no hood , no gloves most tame bees ever |
michael mcelroy Texas Worked these bees last week when they came in without any tools what so ever, Not one sting , some of the tames bees i have seen. I had to give them secound brood box today 1wk in and still didnt need any tool.s. They dong run on the comb, just carry on about thier buisness like I wasnt there. Bee Weaver is coming up with some of the most genetically perfect breed queens and bees on the market today. If they can survive the texas weather and heat and pests they will survive anywhere. So dont forget to buy the best right here before you move on to another site. michael mcelroy Tyler Texas |
| no treatments needed last 4 years with b weaver bees |
michael mcelroy Texas new report on B weaver bees. No treatments needed last 4 years even with hive beetles . The b weaver bees seem to have the gene pool diversity it takes to adapt and develop resistance to these pests and diseases. I am proud of my B weaver bees Its jan 29 and my bees are bringing in pollen already. You go guys thanks again |
| texas bees are best bee weavers |
michael mcelroy Texas I have tried every queen from california to florida and found B weavers to out do them all. They are located right here in my back yard. They have outdone all my other bees in one year. By golly they have something here.. Keep up the good work guys michael tyler texas |
Bee Careful    |
PaxBee New York My first year of contact with honeybees has been by far the most interesting thing I have ever done, and has an intense learning curve full of lessons. Lesson n+1= CHECK THE SEALS AND FLAPS on your beesuit! In my excitement I neglected to seal my chickensuit fully. My neck flap was velcroed, but the zippers were not brought together completely. Two guard bees got into my bonnet through the tiny pea size gap, and after a hundred yard sprint beating olympic records (trapped in a suit unable to remove the veil) being pursued by the rest of the guards - I got stung on the eyelid right above the lashes. I suggest to newbee enthusiasts - CHECK YOUR SEALS and FLAPS. That comb I am holding happened to taste like butterscotch? and maple syrup? and worth all the work. Never had a taste like that or again as whatever nectar source changed within one week and new flavors came in. |
Start of our New Bee yard |
Bobbi Bee Texas New bench works well |
International Human Bee In |
I am the Thorax. I speak for the bees. California Get your **BEE** on! Honeybee colonies have declined by one third over the past three years. Bad news for us humans, because bees pollinate 90% of our crops. And they make honey! Call attention to their plight by dressing as a **BEE** and swarming your local zoo. Bring a whole hive! Set the world abuzz -- be a part of the first International Human Bee In! August 8, 2012 at a zoo near you. Bee there in bee wear! |
| Thank You for Calm Bees! |
Sondra Texas I am a brand-new beekeeper, and couldn't have been more afraid while doing my first install on April 7, the day of pick-up. I wanted to write and thank Laura, especially, for answering my stupid questions all those months while I waited for the pick-up date. The two packages of bees I purchased and installed have been very calm and agreeable, and have even cut me a lot of slack throughout my stupid mistakes as a new beekeeper. I am so grateful to you for making the learning curve so easy! I ADORE my bees and I don't know what I ever did without them. |
| Queen Cells too |
buddysbees Texas jeb532. Thanks for your post and pics. I am also a first year bee keeper and found this in my hive yesterday. One bee keeper thought they were drone cells. I thought I had both drone and queen cells. I have added another super about 3 weeks ago but it now looks like the process of possible swarming my be in place. Please feel free to comment. |
13 swarm cells!    |
jeb532 Texas Was off yesterday afternoon trying to prevent “swarming” of my bees. Didn’t quite get finished..and was up till 1 am making hardware. I will have to finish this afternoon. You have to have 75F+ temps and no rain to do swarm prevention manipulations. Remember I’m new at this beekeeping thing...so I was more than surprised/perplexed at what I found. My BeeWeaver breed hive had THIRTEEN swarm queen cells! The BeeWeaver hive has built up from the original 10,000 bees I bought last April to probably around 80,000 bees. I have split this hive into two “nucs” (half-width hives), each with a few queen cells, and the original hive with a few queen cells. If I’m lucky, I’ll get three hives from one. I also destroyed about half the queen cells to inhibit swarming. Somewhere in the mix, one queen cell was “piping”. I never figured out which queen cell it was. The first picture shows both the young and old pupae stages of a bee. This bee was just a day or two from hardening and emerging. She was in the burr comb between two hives. The second picture shows what the population was like in all three boxes on the BeeWeaver hive. Note...in these pictures at least half of the bees that live in this hive are not visible because they are out in the field collecting nectar/pollen. It would be really crowded at night when everybody is home! The third picture shows a frame of brood is almost all “drone” cells (males). The fourth picture shows the short hive on the left (a “swarm trap”). Middle hive is the duplex “split” off the top of the right hive that I hope gives me two new colonies. Right hive is the BeeWeaver hive. I added a 3rd box back on the top, moved some populated frames to it, and interspersed empty frames throughout. Now I keep my fingers crossed that they don’t swarm anyway....or if they do, that they chose the surrogate hive to live in. |
pollen, pollen, pollen  |
jeb532 Texas Feb 17, 2012...Venus, Texas...the girls are bringing in boat loads of pollen today!...and they are surrounded by a bumper crop of bluebonnets (yet to bloom). This last year I took advantage of the drought to dig out my pond...and everywhere I had beat the grass down with the tractor....bluebonnets came up in the thousands. |
| Poor Drones |
Laura@BeeWeaver Texas Those poor drones! Mine were kicked out this summer due to the drought. When the tough times come those girls decide they don't want any extra mouths to feed! |
| Bee Pimp |
Bee Pimp Texas The ladies are driving the drones out of my hives these days. It is sad to see these poor boys languish and die so ignobly. But it is good for the hive for this winter. Are others experiencing this now? |
chilling with a swarm       |
Heather Campbell Hawaii |
BeeWeaver Bees in Top Bar Hives   |
Texas Beekeeper Texas I would like to thank you for the great bees. About 6_8 weeks ago we came to Austin and pick them up from your house. As you can see by the photos, they are going crazy. I built a top hive and am pleased with it for what I wanted. |
Frosty Home |
Camp Frosty Colorado "Mom, can we come home? Don't like this summer camp." Mom said, it is mighty dusty and hot here... turns out they are thriving despite the cold. Lovely hive! |
Thank you, Ligustrum!  |
jeb532 Texas Tried following the ladies this last weekend to see what they are working. Not much luck until I noticed the neighbor's wax-leaf ligustrum. I got these shots in a 20 mph wind. I had to compete with yellow jackets, wasps, mud dobbers, bumblebees...and butterflies to get to stand in the shrubbery. Pure dumb-luck shots. Taken with a $150 Canon PowerShot A1100 IS in macro-focus mode, ISO set to 1600, program mode, overcast day, 9:25 AM, facing west shot 1, facing south shot 2. |
Post Office bees   |
jeb532 Texas On 4/21 the post office called me to come get my bees...which was very puzzling since I had already picked up my BWeaver package on 4/6. Turns out they had a small swarm by their loading dock , and they still had my phone number. It was a really small swarm...maybe a pound at best. I boxed them up and hauled them, but It took 8 days to find the queen. Either she was a virgin queen...or my eyes just ain't what they used to be. Shes dark and small and hides really well. Well, two weeks later the little ladies are still kicking, making comb and raising brood. Much more skittish than my BWeaver ladies... |
| New queen released and flew around the top of the hive |
Stephen Penick Tennessee My son and I have just got into beekeeping after attending a workshop. We acquired 2 older yet active hives from a man that was selling out. Last week we split the hive and requeened using a BeeWeaver queen in the split that was queenless after 2 days we were anxious to see if she was free and still alive. We were excited to find that she was still in the queen cage eventhough the bees had eaten their way into her. 1 of her nurse bees was still in with her and one from our hive. She would not go out of the hole for some reason. We then removed a corner of the screen to see if she would come out. She not only came out, but flew out in a small circle then landed on the top of the hive with the other workers. It scared us. We were afraid she was going to take off. She then went down inside on the frame, so again curious we wanted to see what she was doing. Imidiately she started backing up to empty cells and laying eggs. We are excited to see where the hive will be in a few more weeks. Thanks to BeeWeaver. |
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