Pulled a hive from under a gazebo deck today
I would do this kind of cut-out every day and twice on Sunday. The bees had just moved in this spring as you can see from the beautiful...
Walk-in Closet Cut-out
This cut-out took a while, but the bees were friendly and we didn't have to work in the sun all day. You can see in the video that...
Soffit Hive III - Cleanup visit to hive
The hive in the soffit that we pulled on Thursday was almost empty of bees when we went back last night to clean it up and catch whatever...
Soffit Hive II - Combining boxes
The hive filled two NUC boxes with comb and I was only able to frame up 5 of them at the site. Tonight I banded comb into 5 more frames...
Soffit Hive I - Cutout
We pulled a rather aggressive hive this evening. It may not have been entirely their fault because the space was so tight we had to be...
Installing our NUC
We got our first bees in a NUC from Christi at her apiary in Rowlett. We picked it up after work and it was pretty dark when we got it...
Getting started
Wholly Honey started with a Intro to Beekeeping class in 2016. We learned some basics about the honey bee and how a beehive works....