Mina's Backyard Bees

Do you think my cat knows I'm a beekeeper?

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Adopt a Bee 2024 is here! All funds will go to hive maintenance and bee health!

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I got a little busy this year and didn’t do a Spring Adopt A Bee. Do you want a December Adopt A Bee? You can gift a bee for the holidays! Let me know 🐝

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Summer ‘25 with the bees

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Who’s ready for Adopt a Bee 2025? 👀

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The bees are starting to slow down for winter by getting lower in population and storing as much last minute food as possible

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Great frame of brood and honey 😍

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A little bee with her proboscis out to eat some honey

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Bringing pollen into the hive!

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I got a photo with 4 bees entering with pollen pants! So exciting 😍

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Happy National Honey Bee Day to Green Bean, Casserole, Priscilla and all their hard working bees! 🪻🌻🌺🐝

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Some pictures from the hive today

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Casserole is so heavy now I have to take some frames out to move the top box! And a dry Swiffer pad to get the hive beetles.

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Green Bean’s pollen collection 😍

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Feeding the bees sugar water and bananas!

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Honey harvest 2024

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Casserole is getting so big. The top box (second picture) is so heavy I couldn’t pick it back up 😂 I had to take frames out and then put it back. That’s over 50 pounds of bees and honey!

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Green Bean hard at work!

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The bees went on a field trip to a preschool today!

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Jrue Honeyday fans the nectar to make sure the water content is below 18%, helping it turn into honey. Keep it up! @nnneredith

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Meet Casserole, right side neighbor to Green Bean! She’s doing great 😀

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Stab-bee Bea uses her antennae to check the temperature, helping the hive stay at its desired temperature around 95 degrees. Great work! @stabbyAlyx