Bountiful Bees of Broad Street

09/21/2026

Wonderful day to work on the bees. Checking for brood, need for syrup, and Apivar. The bees could not be happier and so am I!

09/19/2026

09/16/2026

Cleaning up. The extracting table and its components (with pine straw added so bees can avoid getting stuck) plus the last stack of wet (extracted) supers placed near a bee yard for the bees to clean up.
Hives are now in their winter quarters (no supers) so any honey gleaned goes into their winter reserves

09/14/2026

This is Bitter Melon, a vine crop grown by Two Lazy Farmers in Cranbury NJ where they also grow a great deal of vegetables all without pesticides. They also sell a lot of honey - in fact the bitter melon trellises are right next to several bee hives

09/13/2026

This was a swarm that snuck into a stack of unused medium supers. I realized there was a hive there when I must have pi**ed one of them off walking past and got stung.
Reorganized the stack, put in a medium frame feeder tank and applied the first apiguard treatment. Daytime temperatures have been warm enough and they have distributed the first Apiguard treatment.
Other hives now undergoing Apivar treatments and alcohol washes.

09/13/2026

More shims were needed. For treatment with Apiguard but also to insert moth crystals on paper plates on stacks of extracted supers.
I used to place freshly extracted supers on hives above the inner cover for the bees to clean, then retrieve them only after the first hard frost.
Before the frost the bees would police the combs in the supers to prevent wax moth damage.
Now that the supers are off the hives earlier I need moth crystals to keep the wax moths at bay. Supers will be free of wax moths once the weather gets cold.

09/12/2026

Speaking about electric bear fencing at today's New Jersey Stste Beekeepers Meeting at That Honey Place in Fords, NJ.

09/11/2026

Wet supers (honey has been extracted but they are very sticky) set out for the bees to clean up