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I’m the bearded lady! – Bull City Bees
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Beekeeping adventures in downtown Durham. I’m the bearded lady! The picture’s a touch blurry, but the sun was going down and it was an iPhone… we do what we can). One of the freaks? Nb: the link is not “Jill-approved”, but it goes through my head every time I see the bees beard). 2 Responses to “I’m the bearded lady! July 10, 2012 at 9:53 am. July 10, 2012 at 11:25 am. That would have been awesome! I’ll work on making that happen 🙂. I hope y’all are doing well. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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May 2012 – Bull City Bees
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Beekeeping adventures in downtown Durham. The promised picture…. The freeing of the queen…. Yesterday was the day to check to see if the colony had freed the queen from her marshmallow prison. I tried to get home a bit early in order to check the bees while it was still light. Pushing it too far in to the evening runs the risk that all of the bees will be home, so in general, most bee keeping activity occurs mid-day. I’m the bearded lady! On Evelyn Ramona Cramer. Christopher and Kelly Curley.
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July 2012 – Bull City Bees
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Beekeeping adventures in downtown Durham. One of the things that you’re supposed to do when you first install a new colony in the hive is to feed the colony until it is “established”. How long does that take? Well, it depends. Jill and I fed the bees for a few weeks until we saw that a) they weren’t taking the syrup and b) the workers were returning to the hive with pollen in their pollen baskets. 10# of 1:1 syrup. Or about 5# of sugar to 5# of water. I’m the bearded lady! One of the freaks?
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July 2013 – Bull City Bees
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Beekeeping adventures in downtown Durham. Obligatory bee thousand link. I’m the bearded lady! On Evelyn Ramona Cramer. Christopher and Kelly Curley. 169; 2013 Bull City Bees. Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha.
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April 2013 – Bull City Bees
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Beekeeping adventures in downtown Durham. Or, how I nearly peed my pants on a morning when we’re already running late. Of that seemed to be honey storage which suggests that we have as much as 25-30# of honey and that’s before the main nectar flow in the area]. It was too late to go to the bee store (yes, there is such a thing) and the store is closed on Sunday. A quick trip out during lunch on Monday and I’ve got two new boxes worth of frames. Thou shalt put on the full bee suit, including the gloves.
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Installing the package in the hive – Bull City Bees
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Beekeeping adventures in downtown Durham. Installing the package in the hive. On Saturday, we were scheduled to pick up our bees around 11am out in Hillsborough. After breakfast at the farmer’s market. We ran a few errands and took the Honda out I-40 to Busy Bee. We opted to go with the honda because it has a trunk and the idea of sticking a three pound package of bees into the hatchback of Jill’s Subaru was a little disturbing. Bee veils – check. Smoker – got it. Hive tool – why? It did have a purpose!
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The freeing of the queen… – Bull City Bees
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Beekeeping adventures in downtown Durham. The freeing of the queen…. Yesterday was the day to check to see if the colony had freed the queen from her marshmallow prison. I tried to get home a bit early in order to check the bees while it was still light. Pushing it too far in to the evening runs the risk that all of the bees will be home, so in general, most bee keeping activity occurs mid-day. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You may use these. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Maybe not 3,000 bees.
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Orientation flight – Bull City Bees
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Beekeeping adventures in downtown Durham. For the second day in a row now, I’ve pulled up in the driveway and looked over to see bees doing an orienting flight in front of the hive. The orientation is often described as a set of figure eights, but to my eyes, it looks like the bee is Catholic and is “crossing” the hive repeatedly – up down, left right, repeat in larger and large movements until the bee drifts off to find nectar. Hopefully we can get pictures at some point. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Feeding the bees – Bull City Bees
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Beekeeping adventures in downtown Durham. One of the things that you’re supposed to do when you first install a new colony in the hive is to feed the colony until it is “established”. How long does that take? Well, it depends. Jill and I fed the bees for a few weeks until we saw that a) they weren’t taking the syrup and b) the workers were returning to the hive with pollen in their pollen baskets. 10# of 1:1 syrup. Or about 5# of sugar to 5# of water. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You may use these.
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