This year I pulled some honey supers early as they were full and I wanted to encourage the bees to keep working away. I ended up with roughly 25 pounds of this early honey, and recently bottled it up. I was interested in seeing what the differences were between this early Spring honey and my regular season honey that I gather in July.
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Bad Vespa Rising
I noticed this week an article out of Georgia about the invasive yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina, found near Savannah. This hornet is particularly damaging to honey bee colonies, and is a cousin of the northern giant hornet, known as the Asian giant hornet or “murder hornet” in some media. I thought a brief round up of hornets and wasps might be interesting.
Continue readingEAS 2023
Last week was EAS 2023, or the Eastern Apicultural Society‘s 2003 Short Course & Conference. The annual conference is in a different state every year. This year in Massachusetts and next year is in Maryland. The first two days is the short course, with talks and workshops on microscopy, queen rearing, honey show judging, and other topics; the final three days is the conference, with keynote speakers and the latest in beekeeping and research from some of the best in the nation.
The theme this year was Past, Present, and Beeyond.
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