Hello from Maryland

PSR II · June 15, 2015, 04:35:08 PM

Hi All,

I live in Maryland by the BWI AIRPORT. I have gotten a lot of great information on this message board and finally decided to join. I have been keeping bees for more then ten years. I have been able to over winter them only to lose them the next. I did not have bees last year but I bought two nucs this year. They are doing very well. I was about to do an inspection when one threw off a swarm that landed 40' up in a neighbors tree. I did an inspection and found multiple capped swarm cells so I made a split from each hive putting at least 2 cells in the splits. It appears to be a success. I was also able to catch a swarm. So now I have 5 hives. This is a very exciting year so far.

Maggiesdad · June 15, 2015, 06:17:17 PM

Welcome to Beemaster!

PSR II · June 16, 2015, 08:40:38 AM

Hi Maggiesdad,
Thank you.
How many hives do you have?
In all my readings of posts, it never seem to be anyone from Maryland.I hope to hear from more Marylander's.

cao · June 17, 2015, 12:15:12 AM

Welcome.

BeeMaster2 · June 17, 2015, 01:07:32 PM

Welcome to Beemaster. Congrats on your hives.
I lived in Havre De Grace, MD back in the 80. Baltimore can have some really cold winters and deep snow. I cannot get my wife to move back up north due to heavy snow falls we had while I was out at sea on long deployments.
Jim

Maggiesdad · June 17, 2015, 06:45:20 PM

Quote from: PSR II on June 16, 2015, 08:40:38 AM
Hi Maggiesdad,
Thank you.
How many hives do you have?
In all my readings of posts, it never seem to be anyone from Maryland.I hope to hear from more Marylander's.

- I started 3 TBHs with 2lb packages in late March, then I picked up 2 locally grown nucs (5 frame deeps) a few weeks ago. Then I split the best TBH on May 29th, and pulled two queencells from the queenless split and started two nucs.

We are dry here... it was probably a dumb thing to do with the summer dearth coming on, but I wanted to get my feet wet. Ask me again this fall and I'll tell you how many boxes I'm heading into winter with.

PSR II · June 17, 2015, 10:20:17 PM

Hey Maggiesdad,
Nice to hear from you again. Sounds like you have been busy. Heading to a dearth here also. I have started feeding the swarm I caught. In the fall we don't get much of a nectar flow. The swarm was small, probably an after swarm. I hived them in two medium 10 frame boxes. When I inspected them yesterday there was only enough bees to cover 6 - 7 frames.