My main hive continues to be very healthy – I think I’m going to have to put a second Super…
Flipping Hives…
Today we were back in the training apiary continuing to prepare the bees for winter. The Apilife VAR anti-varroa treatments…
A day in the orchard…
The bees in the training apiary (including the FreeBees) are located in the middle of an old orchard which is…
Autumn Makework…
So over two weeks since the last entry, mostly because what we’ve been doing is barely worth writing about. Other…
Feed The Bees
Due to other commitments on Sunday, I didn’t get along to the Apiary session with everyone else, and went on…
The ultimate tool for lazy beekeepers?
Scientists are using a noninvasive long-wave infrared (LWIR) imaging method pioneered by researchers at Montana State University (Bozeman, MT) and the University of Montana (Missoula, MT) that uses a radiometrically calibrated camera signal to noninvasively estimate the number of bees within their hives. More information here: http://www.optoiq.com/index/photonics-technologies-applications/lfw-display/lfw-article-display/1492187646/articles/laser-focus-world/volume-47/issue-2/newsbreaks/lwir-imaging-method-noninvasively-monitors-honeybee-hives.html