http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/ en-us 2005-09-22T21:38:46-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/028023.html I gave my bees some heavy (2:1) sugar syrup to boost their stores for the winter. I think I will keep the feeders on until I wrap the hives for the winter. Also, I put the entrance reducers in the... emer0084 2005-09-22T21:38:46-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/027596.html I will get some honey this year. The trick right now is finding the time to extract it and fill some jars. There will be gifts of honey. My reactions to honey bee stings are becoming less severe. During my... General emer0084 2005-09-18T21:22:50-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/027594.html Treated the bees for the second time with Sucrocide. The operation proceeded much more smoothly this time. It was faster, and the bees were less irritated. Unfortunately, I think I initiated some robbing of A hive by B hive. I... General emer0084 2005-09-14T21:03:07-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/026634.html I received a promotion at work. Now I work a lot more and make a little bit more money.... General emer0084 2005-09-07T22:50:14-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/026631.html I sprayed both hives with Sucrocide to treat for mites. Hive B was treated on Saturday, 3 September. I succesfully treated the top two hive bodies, but by the time I got to the bottom hive body, the bees were... General emer0084 2005-09-07T22:41:48-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/025956.html We surrendered the kitty to a foster home, hopefully to be adopted by some nice family. In the meantime, she will be living with some slightly older kittens and their feral mother. I visited my bees, and added a third... General emer0084 2005-08-22T22:58:18-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/025818.html Sadly, we have decided to find a new home for our kitten. Our dog thinks that the kitten is food, I think. Would anyone like a kitten?... General emer0084 2005-08-18T13:25:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/025566.html First of all, the cat cost me 150 dollars this afternoon. She is a little sick and wormy from being on her own, but she should be ok. It looks like she got beat up by another cat, and she... General emer0084 2005-08-10T21:11:03-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/025552.html I went to check on the progress the bees have been making in the honey supers. Most of the frames are still not completely capped, but they are nearly ready. However, I could not resist taking one frame with me.... General emer0084 2005-08-10T14:08:29-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/025528.html No sleep for the wicked, so I may as well write about this evening's excitement: This evening, vinfille and I took the dogs for a walk. Returning home, we heard a cat meowing, and we were curious. We put the... General emer0084 2005-08-10T01:51:30-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/025521.html I put the drawers in the screened bottom boards today. Tomorrow I will remove them and inspect for mites. I applied for a management opening at work, and was interviewed for the position this morning. For some reason, the management... General emer0084 2005-08-09T19:23:58-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/025341.html Hi, everyone (you know who you are). Nothing new yet, as I have just finished copying all of my old journal entries into this blog. I will be preferentially updating this blog, so check here for all of teh bee... General emer0084 2005-08-04T16:31:41-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/025339.html Conducted an inspection this morning at about 10 am. The weather was warm and sunny, but not too warm and sunny. My goals during this inspection were twofold: to check the condition of the bees, of course, and to replace... General emer0084 2005-08-01T16:24:23-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/025338.html I inspected my bees this evening with the help of Gustavo, a Brazilian exchange student working at the HRC. He lives in a cabin just a few hundred meters from my hives. He told me that he worked at an... General emer0084 2005-07-24T16:22:54-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emer0084/beejournal/025337.html I inspected today to see how the honey supers on hive B were doing, and to check for the new queen in hive A. The good news is, the new queen is alive and well in the hive. The bad... emer0084 2005-07-14T16:21:17-06:00