Month: April 2018

I knew Loloku was in trouble, but I had hope for her survival with the plan Ted and I came up with! We were going to cage her, add two frames of bees and brood from my strongest hive and then bring her to Ted’s, which is more than five miles away (so they...

Loloku, my new Hawaiian queen from Kona sure has her work cut out for her! She is currently in the hive with only a handful of winter bees as her colony. I introduced her to my queenless nuc last Wednesday. It was lucky I got my hands on a mated queen at all since...

Checking my hives always brings excitement and turmoil. Last Friday was no different. I started with Coraline and Susannah, the two nucs (five frame hives) who share a box. Coraline and her colony were gone altogether and I felt devastated. On further investigation, they still had plenty of food stores, hive was mold-free and mite...