The guest speaker for the August meeting of the Anne Arundel Beekeepers’ Association was Steve McDaniel, the current president of the Maryland State Beekeepers Association and a very learned beekeeper. He gave several recommendations that I thought were significant enough to add to my Hive Management section.
In the spring, Steve suggests that a drone [...]
In an effort to better manage my bees, I decided to examine each side of each frame and take notes on what was happening. Was there brood, pollen, capped or uncapped honey in the frame, was the frame drawn out with comb yet, or was it still as of yet untouched? This is probably way [...]
My hive appears to have swarmed. There are several reasons hive swarm, but in my case, it seems the hive could not draw out comb as fast as it was being filled with brood, pollen, and honey stores. I did some math a few weeks before the hive swarmed and predicted that the [...]
