Category Archives : Todds Notes


Sally 2a did what?

I may be losing my mind – that would be a much easier explanation – or I just observed a very odd thing. I was looking into the two nucs with some bees, hives 5 and 6. Hive 5 is the cardboard box which is supposed to have my ‘banked’ […]


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Q3 NUCs on day 15

It’s late so I’ll be brief. I checked my two NUCs today at around 3 pm and neither queen (George 2) had yet emerged. Hive 6 only had a handful of bees with another handful of capped brood cells available. I opened the cage and I expect that she will […]


Nuc setup for Q2 queen

This morning we inspected the nurse hive and found seven queen cells that were capped. It appeared to all of us that they were rather small/short and not obviously filled with royal jelly as we saw with some of the cells in Q1. We decided to prepare places for all […]


Another Q1 queen problem

Two days ago when I looked at my hives my main focus was on see how the two swapped queens were doing. Today I wanted to take another look at hive 3 and swap wood for cardboard in hive 5. The swap was no problem but I was reminded that […]


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Q1 queens are a mystery

Today was the first day with some sun in about three days. I have been concerned about one of my new queens and I wanted to take a look. Just to review, hive 1 was the only hive to overwinter. I lost two others. We took bees from this hive […]


New woodenware supplier

Irvin Martin, Carlisle, Pa Liz discovered a new woodenware supplier recently and made a trip up to Carlisle, PA to check him out and buy some stuff. Several people gave Liz a list and she came home with lots of goodies. My stuff was even delivered! Thank you, Liz! I […]

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