Urban Beekeeper

My personal beekeeping journal & containment chamber for my loose beekeeping related thoughts.

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

Moved the swarm to a rooftop hive today, nothing to see here.

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

It only takes a lunch break to get swarmed, but your just one call away to rehabilitate.

I'd like to thank the boys in LaSalle for reaching out.

#beekeeperslife #beekeeping #yqg #beeswarm

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

Got a call to contain a swarm today and oh boy was it fun!

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

I gave a 4 frame nuc to one of my coworkers for one of his queenless hive. Best of luck to him!

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

Where’s Waldo but with honey bee queens.

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

Oh boy, I have questions for you about everything you do.

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

I’ve merged a nuc into the home hive.
Goldenrod has started blooming, summer is over for me.

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

Went through the home hive and it looks to have been queenless for about a week now.

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

I’m thinking of moving the queens in the nucs to urban hive 1 & 3 since they have imported queens in them. Winter brooding will start pretty soon.

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

Just finished up at the almost urban yard (I need a better name for this).
Both colonies look fine.
Merged a queenless nuc with another nuc. Now I have a 4 frame nuc and a 4 over 4 nuc with local queens a in them.

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

A close friend of mine made stickers for me the other week! I really do appreciate all that my friends do for me. 😌

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

Finished packing up all my mating nucs at hawk view honey’s yard today.

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

5k has been spent on my beekeeping hobby over the last two years. I’ve already accepted that I’ll be spending another 3k on queen breeding equipment for next spring. I can’t imagine feeling comfortable doing this if I wasn’t living with my parents. 🥶💸

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

@senkanokoi I’m so down for this

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

I started packing up my mating nuc yard at hawk view. I took a queen and moved it into the queenless hive. The other queen was given to hawk view.
Also harvested 4 frames of honey from a couple hives.

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

I made a pretty dumb mistake, I requeened the wrong hive last week. What’s the point of recording everything if I don’t review it. I’ve already known from working in CNC that I can not trust anyone, not even myself. Everything must be double checked.

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

Went in the hives late in the afternoon. I brought my smoker but didn’t have a lighter on me, thought I would be fine if I used my weed vape to smoke them out. All I did was get stoned and pissed off bees.

I did this to myself.

I was in a lot of pain.

Mistakes were made.

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

Almost urban yard.
Nuc 1 accepted the mated queen.
Nuc 2 has has a mated queen in it 🎉
Nuc 3 is hopelessly queen-less and I’ll shake the bees into another hive tomorrow.
Cell builder hive has accepted the queen and found capped brood. Now it’s a normal hive again.

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

Harvested and processed all my mason bee cocoons. They will be stored in the refrigerator until spring of 2021.
I was not able to collect any leaf cutters bees due to parasitic wasps killing the bees before they could hatch out of their cocoons.

[Urban Beekeeper @BeekeepingAge]

Got my first swarm call today!
It was in a back yard compost bin, I wasn’t able to find the queen so I shook the bees in urban hive #3.