Episode 29 - New Employees, New Products, USDA Bee Die Off Study and Lots of Honeybee Hotline
Description
Around the Yard:
- Expanding Products: Riverview Road Apiary adds some employees and new products!
- Pollen Tasting: Luke and Steve try some locally collected pollen and let you know how it is.
- How to Harvest and Prepare Pollen: Luke and Steve talk about pollen collection and preparation.
- Nectar Flow: Nectar is coming in so fast it's difficult to keep up.
- Swarm Captures: Ideas for catching swarms and how we go about it this busy season.
In the News:
- USDA Concludes Cause of Dieoffs in 2024/2025: Luke and Steve review study on what happened to the US bees this last winter and why the dieoffs were so high. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.28.656706v1.full
Honeybee Hotline:
- Discord Server Live: https://discord.gg/SzCUt7yZ come talk to Steve and Luke and make some beekeeping buddies!
- Rewaxing Frames: What we use to rewax our frames.
- Queenless Colonies: Do you add brood from another hive when I add a queen?
- How Many Queen Cells: How many grafted queen cells do you add to a hive?
- Honeybound: How to deal with honeybound hives.
- How to Move Bees Into Drawn Supers: How we get bees to move into drawn supers.
- How to Fix a Drone Laying Queen Coming Out of Winter
- How to Requeen a Large, Mean, Hive
- Where is the Colony Cliff?
Droning On:
- Honey, Treating, and Spring Splits: Luke and Steve talk about what we are doing.
Tune in to Episode 29 for all this and more as we delve into the world of beekeeping in Central Illinois, providing you with practical advice, the latest news, and answers to your buzzing questions.
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/Jk6hyZAY
Randy Oliver Mite Calculator Calendar: https://scientificbeekeeping.com/randys-varroa-model/
How RRA Makes Fondant: https://youtu.be/CAiOF3onmBQ
The American Bee Journal: https://americanbeejournal.com/
Project Apis m. Bee Survey Video 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOCis4ZPfp8
Project Apis m. Website: https://www.projectapism.org/events/i8yr94doxarjvh453lchfhr0xf3bvq
Riverview Road Apiary Nucs: https://riverviewroadapiary.com/products/spring-2025-nuc
Heart of Illinois Beekeeping Club: https://hoibees.org/
Dalan Animal Health Queens: https://bluetoad.com/publication/?m=5417&i=830245&p=38&ver=html5
Beekeeping Buddies Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/beekeepingbuddies/
Fruit and Vegetable Pollination Handbook: https://www.ars.usda.gov/arsuserfiles/20220500/onlinepollinationhandbook.pdf
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