Category: Apiary
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Oxalic Acid in the crisp autumn breeze
Oxalic acid can be a very effective mite treatment during the winter brood break. Oxalic is a relatively well tolerated treatment and when the mites are all outside of capped cells, as they are during the winter brood break, it can be nearly 100% effective. So, is my brood broken? Well, different bees will stop…
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We were on the morning show!
It was a beautiful Tuesday morning in the bee yard (or apiary) when Drew and Jared from Fox29 met us to have a look at the bees for the Good Day Philadelphia morning show. Eric, Aleicia and Dave showed up to talk with them and show them around a colony and discuss some of the…
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More and better barriers
This weekend the Apiary Committee put in posts for our new barrier between the apiary and the road. You can see the apiary on the left side of the image. The road runs down the right side but is not visible here. When ‘activated’ the posts will have largish fabric panels suspended between them, plus…