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A-Team Powers Through
A Team Powers through a video by WithinSeason on Flickr. Many bee books and sites warn about working bees in the wind, but we didn’t have much choice on install day. Monday was the clearest day in the prediction, if windy. So we ran with it. Fortunately, A -Team is a champ! They were very […]
Happy Bee Day! Picking up the Nuc aka the Drive of Terror
April 15, 2012
After much anticipation, the bees are finally here! Nuc #1, aka the A-Team, arrived in the night on the back of a trailer along with 50 of their most-irritated friends. Nucs, if you’re new to this like we are, are live colonies. They’re small (about 5 frames — a regular size hive-body will hold 8-10 […]
April 19, 2012
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