Since our first practice graft on April 3rd, we’ve been conducting practice grafts every Monday and Friday. Today was our first real grafting with putting the queens that developed into queenless nucs in our research apiary so they can go…
We do their first practice graft! Practice grafts don’t go to mate – actually, here let’s take a second and explain the process of grafting. First, I go to a hive, take out a frame, and scoop out three-day old…
Emily and I make a map of all hives within a 5 mile radius to get an idea of the drones the queens would be mating with.
Emily and I sit down with Nate Reid, our Head Beekeeper at the time, and Caitlin Duennebiar, our Boston Regional Operations Manager, and officially propose the schedule and formalize the plan. The schedule is edited and we end up deciding…
Emily and I come up with a queen rearing plan for Boston; I proposed a queen rearing schedule that started in April and ended in August.
Emily and I start talking about queen rearing in Boston because I took the They Keep Bees queen rearing course over the summer.
Contents: What is Overwintering? What are Overwintering Rates? How Do Bees Prepare for Winter? What Do Bees Do in the Winter? What is the Difference Between Normal Worker Bees and Winter Bees? How Do Beekeepers Prepare for Overwintering? What do…
Contents: What is a Pollinator Garden? Why are Pollinator Gardens important? Do Pollinator Gardens have to be a Certain Size? Plants To Include in a Pollinator Garden Plants to Avoid in a Pollinator Garden Provide a Water Source How to…
Started tackling the backlog of HoneyDNA samples; with the new software, we were able to get through it in a couple weeks.
We developed proprietary software to process and analyze the genomic sequencing data, making it easier and faster to analyze species present in honey samples at scale. It used to take 45 minutes to analyze the sample (the lab sends us…
