Steve McDaniel’s Management Tips

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 [...]

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Progress Report #10

I haven’t updated the log for over a month, but I have been checking the bees. They have been working to draw out comb on some of the empty frames, but they have not been doing a good job. The comb is bridged - it’s not drawn out from the plastic cell foundation, [...]

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