Yeah, yeah, I've been lurking for quite a while and the pun is always the same.
This is a great resource grozzy's anatomy of a mite crash is epic, and should be recommended for all new bee keepers. I live about an hour or so West of JWpalmer, and an hour and half or so West of Johno (which I plan on patronizing here shortly). I've been learning a lot from other's experiences here, books, articles, etc. I had no intention of posting anything, but decided after my last inspection to ask some opinion. I have a picture, and will post the thread in the appropriate forum (maybe).
I got my first package, ever, on March 25th, and have inspected the hive now 5 times (today being the fifth), on Saturday I pick up my first Nuc. This has been an unseasonably warm spring, and while I haven't kept a journal about plants, people here in the piedmont have been suggesting that blooms are popping earlier than normal. I saw my first forsythia bloom in February. I was going to contribute back then, but I'm not even sure I was a member then. As soon as I got my bees they were busy. I have lots of build out, and I observed comb in the first 10 days, 1 week after that there was lots of egg laying going on. Two weeks later a lot of covered brood comb. I've been supplementing them with 1:1 sugar water.
Anyhow, for some of the regulars, I've read most of your posts going back a couple of years. If you look at your profile you can see that I've visited your page. I know my profile name is endabcs, but that is an old college football reference, I can assure you that I have nothing against the abcs. I see that some of you engage in politics, and as heated as it gets, I can promise you, I will not weigh in on screen bottom boards, or treatment free beekeeping... And I thought religion and politics were argumentative and caustic.
I hope I have my profile set up right, so that my signature shows that I'm in USDA agricultural zone 7A and live at the foothills of the piedmont of VA, elevation 460'
It appears to me that beekeepers are people in search of a problem that has multiple solutions, none of them right for everyone, and all of them right for just about anyone.
I get it, all beekeeping is local, but some problems are universal.
So, hello ya'll, and here goes
This is a great resource grozzy's anatomy of a mite crash is epic, and should be recommended for all new bee keepers. I live about an hour or so West of JWpalmer, and an hour and half or so West of Johno (which I plan on patronizing here shortly). I've been learning a lot from other's experiences here, books, articles, etc. I had no intention of posting anything, but decided after my last inspection to ask some opinion. I have a picture, and will post the thread in the appropriate forum (maybe).
I got my first package, ever, on March 25th, and have inspected the hive now 5 times (today being the fifth), on Saturday I pick up my first Nuc. This has been an unseasonably warm spring, and while I haven't kept a journal about plants, people here in the piedmont have been suggesting that blooms are popping earlier than normal. I saw my first forsythia bloom in February. I was going to contribute back then, but I'm not even sure I was a member then. As soon as I got my bees they were busy. I have lots of build out, and I observed comb in the first 10 days, 1 week after that there was lots of egg laying going on. Two weeks later a lot of covered brood comb. I've been supplementing them with 1:1 sugar water.
Anyhow, for some of the regulars, I've read most of your posts going back a couple of years. If you look at your profile you can see that I've visited your page. I know my profile name is endabcs, but that is an old college football reference, I can assure you that I have nothing against the abcs. I see that some of you engage in politics, and as heated as it gets, I can promise you, I will not weigh in on screen bottom boards, or treatment free beekeeping... And I thought religion and politics were argumentative and caustic.
I hope I have my profile set up right, so that my signature shows that I'm in USDA agricultural zone 7A and live at the foothills of the piedmont of VA, elevation 460'
It appears to me that beekeepers are people in search of a problem that has multiple solutions, none of them right for everyone, and all of them right for just about anyone.
I get it, all beekeeping is local, but some problems are universal.
So, hello ya'll, and here goes
