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Had an interesting thing happen this morning. I was marking a new queen and everything was going like normal. I was able to capture her in the marking plunger, I removed the worker bees and then I marked her by pushing the plunger up and gently pushing down on the top so that she would be immobilized as I marked her. I marked her and kept the pressure on for just a few seconds then I released the plunger so that she could move around while the paint dried without worry about the paint smearing. The thing is, she didn't move. My heart skipped several beats and I said some choice things but I could not think of anything that I did wrong. I kept her in the cage and put her aside while I finished the inspection. All the time thinking what to do. After the inspection, I…

Read an interesting article published by the Baltimore Sun https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/08/14/lanternfly-poop-hoco-honey-ellicott-city/

Just wanted to say thank you to all who helped organize, run, teach, and all the things that went into the extraction party. Everyone was super nice and welcoming and allowed for us newer beeks to learn and get some experience while having fun in our community.

While I only extracted 3 frames of honey, we had a lot of fun jarring it up as a family for gifts to our neighbors and friends. Thanks again!

Hello, we are selling our home and moving out of state later this summer.  Unfortunately, we will not be able to take our two colonies with us.  We are offering them to anyone in the club who can come get them.  They need to go before we close on our house (mid-late July).  We plan to restart beekeeping after our move, so we would prefer to keep the boxes.  Please bring your own boxes to haul the frames if possible.  The two hives are 8 frame and each have one deep and three mediums.  We also have an approximately 30”w  x 72”l x 20”d wooden stand for the two hives.

The bees are from last year and we’ve seen both queens this year.  We also treated with Varroxsan Oxalic Acid Strips this spring.  One hive was becoming honey bound in May so we extracted approximately a gallon of honey.  There is still plenty…