Here is an article that was pointed out to me a while back.
Most of you probably are aware of the waggle dance that bees do to direct their sisters to the best nectar sources.
This article discusses that dance, and a couple other bee dances as well as how bees are able to navigate. They really are amazing little critters!
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Updated Inventory!
Just a quick note to let you all know that I have updated the inventory on the Etsy storefront, now that we have had a chance to catch up on some bottling. There are still a couple gallons remaining from August to get into jars and that will be up soon as well.
We took this past weekend, after Thanksgiving to swing by our different locations and pick up the last of the honey supers that I had taken off the hives a couple weeks back. These will be extracted as soon as we can find a moment.
Meanwhile, sitting in our back yard we have a sort of sad hive body from our fifth hive that just didn't make it this year. I'm not sure what the problem was, but the colony, which we stared from a swarm, just never was able to reach critical mass with its population. Finally they colony just dwindled away. In case it was disease, we don't want to reuse the wax or frames. We also don't want to try extracting this honey since a lot of it was never quite cured, and there has been some wax moth damage to the comb (including the moth eggs, silk, etc.) I need to scrape down the frames so I can separate the wax and melt it down, then we will burn the frames and scorch the interior of the hive body over a fire to kill any infection that may linger. No sense in endangering another colony by exposing it to any potential disease that may have caused this colony to wither.
Please visit our shop to purchase Noe Valley Honey and other hive products from the Pollen Princesses.
We took this past weekend, after Thanksgiving to swing by our different locations and pick up the last of the honey supers that I had taken off the hives a couple weeks back. These will be extracted as soon as we can find a moment.
Meanwhile, sitting in our back yard we have a sort of sad hive body from our fifth hive that just didn't make it this year. I'm not sure what the problem was, but the colony, which we stared from a swarm, just never was able to reach critical mass with its population. Finally they colony just dwindled away. In case it was disease, we don't want to reuse the wax or frames. We also don't want to try extracting this honey since a lot of it was never quite cured, and there has been some wax moth damage to the comb (including the moth eggs, silk, etc.) I need to scrape down the frames so I can separate the wax and melt it down, then we will burn the frames and scorch the interior of the hive body over a fire to kill any infection that may linger. No sense in endangering another colony by exposing it to any potential disease that may have caused this colony to wither.
Please visit our shop to purchase Noe Valley Honey and other hive products from the Pollen Princesses.
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