Category: Beekeeping
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The IPM Tray: Pest Management on the Bottom Floor
Post 10 of 29 in the AZ Hive series On the bottom floor of each hive sits a removable tray…
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Frame Support Rods, Spacers, and Dividers
Post 11 of 29 in the AZ Hive series In the last post we walked through the frame. This one…
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The Inner Door and Locking Bar
Post 12 of 29 in the AZ Hive series You’ve loaded the frames. The alignment comb did its job and…
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Inside a Four-Chamber Hive Body
Post 13 of 29 in the AZ Hive series We’ve been zoomed in on the chamber: the rods, the spacers,…
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Outer Doors That Double as Chalkboards
Post 14 of 29 in the AZ Hive series The outer door is the part of the hive everyone sees.…
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How I Mark Frames and Hives
Post 15 of 29 in the AZ Hive series When you’re working six hives with twenty-four chambers and more than…
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Why Our Hives Have Names: The Scooby Doo Theme
Post 16 of 29 in the AZ Hive series When we were researching AZ Slovenian hives, we kept seeing that…
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Re-siding the Shed End: Prepping for Bees and a Mural
Post 17 of 29 in the AZ Hive series The shed already existed before the bees did. It had corrugated…
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Painting the Scooby Doo Mural
Post 18 of 29 in the AZ Hive series None of us are professional artists. So we cheated. We set…
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Bee Entrances Through the Wall
Post 19 of 29 in the AZ Hive series The bees land outside the shed. The hives are inside. Something…