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P52 :: week of March 1, 2015 :: a mouse in the house

March 8, 2015juliabeesmouse, p52 2015, Younkers

Younkers. I put so much love into this hive. I remember it like yesterday. Here is how the hive looked on 9/11/2014: Younkers didn’t even make it to Day 300. Here is Younkers on 3/9/15: It was living in the bottom deep, but when I started moving woodenware around, it moved to the upper deep. It…

{ honey bees } Mouse in the house

On warm winter days, I visit the hives to check their overall well-being. On this day, it was 50 degrees with no wind. I saw my homemade hive — the entrance reducer was on the ground. I have another hive where this happened three times, also on a homemade bottom board. The issue here is tolerances — a…