Days of a Beekeeper

Getting the bees ready for winter...checking weight--must have 100# or so for the winter. Getting for the mite treatments if needed. Extracting the last of the honey supers,,, should be done by the 1st of Oct. Honey production  has been below average for the midwest... but all the drought has done a job on the crops..... Allways looking to next year.

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Been busy the last several weeks, had entries Judged @ the county fair, and  came home with 2 blue ribbons, and a red ribbon, missed the blue by 1 point... Getting some of our Kansas bee locations ready for the full treatments for mites, etc... Removing honey , but the crop is really low....

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Have been looking at alot of different bee locations the past week, so good, and some not quite as good. Looks like the bees have been gathering some nectar in the Missouri locations, but the Kansas bees appear to be done for now.. Nothing really blooming... Hope we get some much needed rain in August, then the bees go gather some fall honey for them this winter...

Bev and I have been busy this week working the NEKBA (NorthEastKansasBeeAssociation) honey booth at the Johnson County Fair... Traffic has been pretty good, and honey sales appear to be doing well.

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Have been busy removing box's of honey from some of our Kansas Bee Locations, and started extracting.. looking better than thought it would be. Took 70+ box's off the last 2 days, so will spend tomorrow extracting to have some empty box's to put back on for a fall flow... hopefully.... will be putting more pic's on the photo page..

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In the last couple of weeks, we have been busy movin bees trying to stay ahead of crop sprayers... still had several yards of bees in the line of fire.. will keep a close look at them, but the populations are down quite a bit, seems the field force may have been killed by the spraying.

Started to remove some of the clover crop, looks like the average this year is going to be way below normal, some locations will not even pull anyhoney... as they say... next year will  be better.. Am posting pic's on photo gallery page...enjoy...

Have another 35 nuc's trying to build up... requires weekly feeding just to keep them alive... Will be  using some of these for pumpkin pollination later this month.

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