Four Seasons Apiaries

07/20/2026

Cracking these boxes apart... so good, I should have taken a video. Too heavy though.

06/26/2026

Grafted with Adrian Quiney on Tuesday. We had 83/85 take!
Unfortunately I missed some brood disease in my cell starter and I decided to scrap these 44 cells pictured.

Lessons learned: Don't rear queens in a hurry.
Lesson already known: Always graft way more than you need.

06/08/2026

I don't know anyone else who mates multiple queens in a standard deep using a queen excluder, do you?

Follow along if you want to see how many mate successfully!

Stocking a queen hotel to mate honey bee queens with a shared worke...

05/25/2026

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05/11/2026

Getting ready for tomorrow. It's been a while...

04/01/2026

I'm thinking of raising some mated queens to sell this June/July. Interested?

02/11/2026

Attended the Midwest HoneyBee Expo last weekend! Had a lot of great conversations with beekeepers. I overhauled the website for my app. Check it out!

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