The last three days were spent feeding bees with sugar syrup around the county. Today we stopped for lunch under a shady tree in an avocado grove in Valley Center. About the time we were getting back to work I looked up and saw what looked like a...
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In most hives there are 9 frames in the shallow , 8 frames & a feeder (a container for sugar syrup) in the deep . This is Hermilindo inspecting a frame from one of our colonies in Poway (where I grew up! :mrgreen:). At the top right you can see where.
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Sometimes the bees get so thick it's kinda like a fog. Usually when they are robbing , stealing honey from another colony. The bees are completely ignoring us, all they want is the honey. This picture is my foreman Jose. He's been working bees..
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This is a typical bee yard in (cue up ominous music) The Valley , (California's Imperial Valley, 100 - 115 temps, high humidity, no breeze). 15 pallets with 4 colonies each. We have about 2000 colonies in The Valley . We spent Wednesday - Friday for.
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When everything I owned was boxed up and thrown into storage a few years ago, my soft furniture was junked. It was pretty beat up & not worth storing. While talking with my former boss at church this morning I mentioned that I didn't have a...
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