On A Limb with Claudia

I was tagged by Sue who was tagged by Darla. I was also tagged by Julia who was tagged by Darla as well.
The universe has spoken… It’s time to do the page 123 meme. The rules are pretty simple, and here goes:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123
3. Find [...]

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Or How Claudia spent her weekend.
Love the swarms… love the swarms… love the swarms…. the phone rings and off we go.
Swarm catchers.
This swarm was in a woman’s peach tree. She lived in Central Denver and insists that this is from a feral hive. Of course, we were all over that. (Feral [...]

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Between rain storms, a swarm flew into our yard.  Wanna see what happened?
It started with a high buzzing sound.  When I went to check our bees, they were out on their porches defending their homes.  A cloud of bees came into the bee yard then were pushed out by our bees.  They landed in our [...]

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After waiting and pacing around for most of the morning, I watched the mailman’s back as he moved off our porch and on with his route on Saturday.
No queenbee in sight.
Two hours later, a breathless postman pounded on the door. Tucked under his jacket was a box from ZiaQueen. He said his boss drove [...]

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With any luck, two ladies will arrive in my mailbox Friday….

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Photo by Harlekwin - Bee in Pear Groves
Spent quite a bit of time in my hives on Sunday and wanted to give you an update.
My big hive? It’s big. There’s a lot of bees and no food. The bees are hungry and aggitated after 2 days stuck inside due to snow. Wouldn’t [...]

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