#hive-173511Unmoderated tagAll postsTrendingHotNewPromotedPayoutssolominer in #hive-173511 • 2 years agoHoney bees Month 2: Hive cross comb and a splitIt has been a few months since I have posted an update on my Honey bees. They are doing great, so well in fact they were planning on swarming. That can happen when a hive…solominer in #hive-173511 • 2 years agoSugar water feeders all set up for the honey beesWith about a month or so before I get my packages of bees. I am wrapping up on building out the site for the bees. Two areas were constructed, about 70 feet from each other. The…solominer in #hive-173511 • 2 years agoAnother mason bee home set upI had the opportunity to put a home at another property. I am curious if I will attract wild mason bees there. Using some of my boards that did not come out so well I built…solominer in #hive-173511 • 2 years agoInstalling my packages of Honey beesI got myself enough bees to start off two hives, around 20,000 bees total. They arrived in these wooden crates, the queens are in little containers and there are sugar water…solominer in #hive-173511 • 2 years agoBehavior of Mason bees right before a rainstormWe had a rainstorm come in during the peak of this solitary bee season. The little bees up till the rain started were still foraging for pollen, nectar and mud. But once the rain…solominer in #hive-173511 • 2 years agoMason bee larvae spinning cocoonsWhile I was putting away my bee boards for the season, one of them came apart. I left it outside to observe how the larva goes through their transformation. At this point they…solominer in #hive-173511 • 2 years agoBeehive observations a few days inThe bees have had over the weekend to adjust to their new surroundings. I can see some of the bees bringing in pollen on their legs which is great. And the queen is almost free…solominer in #hive-173511 • 2 years agoBeehive inspection a few days after splitMy strong hive had grown so much, it was getting overfilled. I noticed a change in the bees behavior and went to work giving them more space. We do this by doing a "split"…solominer in #hive-173511 • 2 years agoUp close to the bee hive - Macro videoWe get even closer to the hive in this next video, seeing what the bees are doing right by the entrance to their hive. I set up my macro lens as close as possible and collect…solominer in #hive-173511 • 2 years agoMason bees hatching Part 1Recently I shared a trailer on LBRY showing just a few minutes of a bee chewing through its spun cocoon. In this post I have uploaded almost twenty minutes of content including…solominer in #hive-173511 • 2 years agoHoney bee comb progress - Macro videoIt has almost been a whole week since each of the hives have been filled with three and a half pounds of bees. The queen has now been freed and should start increasing the hives…solominer in #hive-173511 • 2 years agoHoney bees Day 3: Checking on the queens and changing entrance reducersI was told by the bee provider I should check on the queen to see if shes been freed within a few days. The workers have to eat through a candy plug to free her and I was there…solominer in #hive-173511 • 2 years agoView of the entrance to the hiveAs I come up on a month of having bee hives, I need to do an update video talking about it and showing where I am at inside the hive. I did capture some recent video of the…solominer in #hive-173511 • 2 years agoHoney bees Day 2: adding sugar water and ant barriersAfter installing the packages, I gave them some time to adjust. But I was concerned about how much sugar water they needed. Especially in the top feeders that only hold about a…
