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Adventures in Beekeeping
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A very nice looking queen

5/23/2018

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This is a very productive queen, with a great laying pattern.  The interesting thing to note here is sometimes even great queens get confused.  Can you find the cell with two eggs in it?
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Nice looking swarm

5/18/2018

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I picked this swarm up around 7:00 in the morning.  The folk's whose yard it was in called me late the night before, so I headed out early to pick it up.  It was one of my easiest swarm calls this year.  The swarm is doing great.  
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Presented at APWA

5/10/2018

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I recently presented on honey bees to members of the MidAtlantic Chapter of the American Public Works Association.  It was a lot of fun presenting to folks who are not beekeepers.  This is a nuc I took to the conference.  In the background you can see the equipment that was setup for the Equipment Rodeo (think of it as a test of skill with large equipment).  This was a great hive, everyone saw the queen, and folks lined up to have their picture taken holding a frame of bees!  
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May 10th, 2018

5/10/2018

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These girls obviously over stayed their visa!  Sometimes a swarm will start drawing out comb if the stay in a location too long.  This could have been complicated as there was very little room to work, but I located the queen, got her in the box, and everyone else marched on in.  
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    Don Cole

    Beekeeper extraordinaire.  

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