alleyyooper
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| Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 3:17 pm Post subject: Our Maples have bloomed |
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The Crimson King.
Silver Maple.
The second Crimson King.
A Red Maple.
Yes the honey bees do get nectar from these blooms. Yes the honey does have a hint of Maple syrup flavor.
 Al
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| Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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As usual Al , lovely photos . You must be getting busy . When does the first honey arrive ?
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Now Al how did you guess what questions I was gonns ask?!!!  The maple blooms are lovely - they remind me of little nosegays of flowers that a boy would present to his sweetheart on their first date.  Oops - showing my age now I guess. 
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Pinkiered
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Just wonderful! See I learned something today! I didnt even know Maples bloomed! LOL
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alleyyooper
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We have been working like crazy getting ready for our summer with the honey bees. Starting in early March we applied pollen patties to all the colonies still alive from winter. It is also the time I take all the dead colonies home and try to determan what they died of. Some are just unknowen. Some died because January was so warm the queen started laying eggs and the workers refused to leave them uncovered and starved to death when it got cold again in Febuary, despite 90 pounds of honey in the top box.
We also have been recycleing a lot of hive bodies where I had to remove the old paint all off and stain them so we are able to use them for our increases. Just finished that and it was time to install ther medication strips and mix water and sugar for a syrup to feed them. This week we were able to finish our reversals and resupply the syrup. Sunday we are getting our first queens for splitting the hives we have left.
We installed two packages last week at the tree nursery yard.
The queen cage.
hard part finished one hive.
Al
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alleyyooper
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Hopefully this is what we will see Monday when we start doing our splits.
May 7th 2005 3 days before we split last year.
On May 18th we pull all medication strips wait two weeks and install ther honey supers. They should be all full by Mid june so we will instal another one.
By Mid July we will have 2006 Honey for sale, Due to fuel cost increases the price will rise per pound. Not sure just how much yet.
Al
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Wow, look at all of them! Mmmm....honey....
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