Welcome to new members of the ABQ Beeks Yahoo Group. I hope you will find this to be a useful group for you. It will certainly ease some communication chores...
We will be piggy-backing on the annual training session being held at Ken Hays home in Bosque Farms on Saturday, April 26th. We have not yet set any specific...
The latest issue of the American Bee Journal features a great article by two New Mexico beekeepers, Mark Spitzig and Melanie Kirby, co-owners of Zia Queen Bee....
... Hi, Max. There are no legal restrictions on beekeeping in the city, either in Rio Rancho or Albuquerque. However, to help ensure it stays that way, it's...
Congrats Jerry...you're famous! http://www.abqjournal.com/biz/288711business02-28-08.htm Thursday, February 28, 2008 Local Keepers Not the Only Ones Buzzing...
I'm taking advantage of the lovely weather today to work my bees. I have two Langstroth hives to inspect and I will also be reversing the deeps. I'll wait...
Thanks for posting the article, Eric; and thanks to Autumn for writing it and reminding folks about the importance of bees. I think I will defer any celebrity...
Hola Apicultores y Apicultoras! Thank you for inviting us to join the ABQ Beeks group. We enjoy sharing info on keeping bees and are constantly learning and...
Here's a link to my blog with some musing about two recent deadouts. I would love to hear any responses, comments or suggestions. Some more experienced...
Hola, Melanie! Would you mind expanding on your comment about your field day and volunteer days? I know a little about them having attended last year and from...
If you plan of feeding pollen patties to your bees this spring (or fall) you might be interested in this. I purchased a bulk supply of MegaBee, The Tucson bee...
Hello Jerry-- Thanks for including me in your invite. Sounds great! Will want to throw out to the group: Has anyone (else) lost any colonies this winter?...
Hello Peggy and bee enthusiasts- I would like to mention a few interesting things to consider when ordering bees, packages or queens from other locations. The...
Good morning, Peggy. I ,too, lost 50% of my colonies this winter. I have already made a post with a link to a fairly lengthy article I wrote about that so I ...
Happy weekend to all the ABQ Beeks. Just a short note to bring to your attention that I added two new links to our group page today. Look in the left hand menu...
I have a question about bees and water. I've got a few large planter basins out in my yard for the bees, but they seem to mostly prefer my neighbors bird bath....
Neal-- The best advice I can give you is to take a look and analyze the environmental differences between your neighbor's bird bath and your planter...
I have been told that bees do not like to get their feet wet. Can you put some stones in the water so the bees can land on them? Another thought is that your...
Good suggestions. I just went out and compared. I have two basins of water in my yard. The smaller one had a nice collection of bees on it. The larger was ...
I want to get into beekeeping but I am worried about bears. (I lost 13 chickens and 3 turkeys to a bear last summer, then I had to convince him to quit...
I had a similar problem a few years back and put up 3 strand electric fence with a grounding cloth (chicken wire). This system seems to have discouraged...
I have on good authority that a product named Nite Guard really works to protect against predators. See their web site niteguard.com. I live in Cedar Crest...
Kester L Oman
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Mar 12, 2008 4:30 pm
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Those nite guards look good! Okay, I plan on ordering in a week or so and seeing if they help w/ the chickens - then maybe next Spring I could start bees! ...
How big does the area fenced in have to be - I am anticipating 1 or 2 topbar hives. Heidi sitka0925 <ewh1@...> wrote: I had a similar problem a few years...
Eric & Heidi-- I will be very interested to hear whether the "nite guards" work in keeping bears away. I have heard so many stories about the difficulty of...
I fenced an area about 20 x 20 feet that surrounds my 6 hives. I constructed the fence because a bear had "flipped" one of the hives. I also installed motion...
Hi Melanie, Thanks so much for the post re: out-of-state bees. I could cancel that order, and would purchase from you; I just didn't know how to reach you...
I just finished making a simple KTB. I wanted to build a top bar hive myself because that is supposedly part of the reason for using them, they are relatively...
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