Tag Archives: Charlie Harper

Raising Honeybee Queens

Posted on January 31, 2012 by ed

We began raising our own queens after we discovered our bees had mites which had developed a resistance to both Apistan and Coumaphos in 2002. The option at that time was to use an even stronger chemical to kill the … Continue reading →

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Reversing Hives and Installing Russian Honeybee Queens

Posted on April 16, 2011 by ed

This week has been quite exciting. We were expecting a shipment of Russian Queens to be shipped from Charlie Harper so we felt pressured to finish inspecting and reversing all our hives in our main Breeding Yard.  Monday and Tuesday … Continue reading →

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Getting Ready for the Arrival of our Russian & Carniolan Queens

Posted on April 1, 2011 by ed

Ed has been busy in our main breeding yard  this week inventorying all our stored woodenware and disposing of unrepairable equipment. Next week we will  begin cleaning out the dead outs, cleaning all our plastic and glass feeders –  and … Continue reading →

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Reaffirmation for the Honeybees!

Posted on February 24, 2011 by ed

In 2009 and 2010 we introduced (2) New World Carnolian Breeder Queens from Sue Cobey at the University of California,Davis. We also continued to get Russian Queens from Charlie Harper from Carencro, Louisiana. In 2009 we had separate Russian and … Continue reading →

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