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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: MarkR on May 07, 2007, 04:50:09 pm
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I think the first batch of eggs must have come to maturity in the past few days. Talk about a population explosion. It's quite amazing. Yesterday afternoon and this afternoon, I sat out there and watched hundreds upon hundreds of the little guys (girls, I know) coming and going. Plus, the poplar's just popped. Next up. . . berries. :-D God, I love spring!!!!
Mark
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I think the first batch of eggs must have come to maturity in the past few days. Talk about a population explosion. It's quite amazing. Yesterday afternoon and this afternoon, I sat out there and watched hundreds upon hundreds of the little guys (girls, I know) coming and going. Plus, the poplar's just popped. Next up. . . berries. :-D God, I love spring!!!!
Mark
Awesome! On what date did you install your bees? By my calculations/Observations, I should have new born bees on the 18th. So I'll take a guess and say you installed around April 14th?
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March 31st, but there was that unfortunate incident with my first queen dying. Still. . . I'm really psyched. Sadly, I won't be able to check out what's happening inside until this weekend. Working just sucks.
Mark
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Great news.. Funny about your blooms, the poplar here has not opened, but the berries have just started in the last 2 days. I watched as a butterfly worked one of them. I calculate that my first hive should have new bees any time now. Since every other bee in the hive is over 21 days, I assume that many will be released to forage soon.
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tulip poplar has been blooming here for about 12 days, wish it would last longer, I have heard a hive can collect about 40 pounds of honey off of one big tree, I heard this dont know it for a fact but my hives have been working hard and loading supers the last 2 weeks.