This makes me feel rather reverent about my imminent package of bee love. I'll toast your girls with every cup of tea & every yummy bite of toast.
I wonder if the fact that the mite treatment was in short supply is indicative that many other beekeepers have been having the same problem? I know here it's been a very odd year, weather-wise, and I've noticed we've had different bug problems than in other years. (Every year we seem to be plagged with an invasion of something noxious - this year it's stinkbugs.) Our local honeybees have been agitated for some reason: I got stung for the first time in 40 years, and Mr. hg has been stung many times, sometimes several times in one day.
I certainly hope it goes much better for you & your girls next year. I suspect your idea of getting your bees from someone close to home is a good one, with what little I remember from my yrs of Bio & Environmental Science in college (back when everything was on stone tablets & the occasional papyrus scroll..... )
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I wonder if the fact that the mite treatment was in short supply is indicative that many other beekeepers have been having the same problem? I know here it's been a very odd year, weather-wise, and I've noticed we've had different bug problems than in other years. (Every year we seem to be plagged with an invasion of something noxious - this year it's stinkbugs.) Our local honeybees have been agitated for some reason: I got stung for the first time in 40 years, and Mr. hg has been stung many times, sometimes several times in one day.
I certainly hope it goes much better for you & your girls next year. I suspect your idea of getting your bees from someone close to home is a good one, with what little I remember from my yrs of Bio & Environmental Science in college (back when everything was on stone tablets & the occasional papyrus scroll..... )