Gee's Bees, LLC

Benny's bees swarmed. The good news is he was able to hive them. Then they swarmed again, and he was able to catch another. The texts were flying pretty furiously and here's a record of the back and forth: Monday, Mar 21 · 10:19 AM Benny Smith Good morning Matt and Beth.  I think my hive swarmed yesterday.  I found a swarm in a small tree about 30 ft in front of my hive.  Looked to be all Italians.  I managed to capture it and have it in a 10 frame deep and I got the Queen in a cage rubberbanded on a new foundation in the deep.  When should I release her?  Also, I was going to mark her if now is the time to do it?  This was the swarm. I had to brush them all off onto the ground on a tarp and then find the Queen and cage her and put her in the deep. I closed them up in the deep and moves them to the permanent location this morning, set it up, and gave them some 1:1 SW. These are my 2 hive now.  I set up the new stand and still have the original clo...

Saturday's weather was pretty solid, plenty warm enough, 70° and sunny, Greensboro, NC Weather History. Still working towards (4) production hives, moving Hive 23 slowly over to replace Hive 25, which we expect problems from. That will be tomorrow's fun... We've scheduled the Mentees from this year’s Bee School to come over to help and gain some experience and saved inspections from Hive 23, 25 & the Nuc.  We will also start a new ranking system, placing aggressiveness high, and start selecting from queens that behave the way we want and are not so chippy. With a ranking system, we hope we can promote bees that are gentle, calm, have a low tendency to swarm, and are good honey producers.  Benny & Kathy (from the Bee Club) met us this afternoon to take a look at a couple of hives. As suspected Hive 25 (Old 23) was booming and shot up the rankings to Number 1... Description: Super Chill & Super Huge, just what you want. In fact, this Hive was so good, B is conside...