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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: How are your Bees?
« Last post by cao on April 22, 2024, 11:33:37 pm »I was talking about this the other day with friends. This year was a mild winter with an early spring that had no major cold snaps. Now we are getting the rains that are delaying some of the farmers from killing the cover crops to plant. So, there is an eighty-acre farm with crimson clover and some other white flower blooming that I can see the majority of my bees heading that direction when they leave their hives. I had one hive swarm almost a month ago. Having 40+ hives make it through the winter, I made the first round of splits 3 weeks ago. Almost time to check if queen is laying. I made another round of splits about a week ago. Even with those splits I have caught 6 swarms, 3 of them today. As of today, I have bees in over 110 boxes. They are full hives with multiple boxes all the way down to 4 frame nucs. Right now I have all my stands full and have nuc boxes sitting all over the place. And the bad thing is I still have 8 hives that I still need to inspect (they are probably the ones that swarmed today).