Bear Creek Honey

05/11/2022

Brutal spring, so this is the first opportunity to do a hive inspection on one of my surviving hives of 2022.

08/30/2021

Letting a late season swarm requeen itself has been an effort in futility due to time constraints before fall arrives. The best solution I have found is to r...

08/29/2021

Just an update on last weeks hive post honey flow where we found swarm cells, removed them and half the frames of brood to relieve pressure on the colony.

08/22/2021

Post honey flow swarms are very real. Many bees which once had 5 or 6 boxes in which to move around freely are quickly driven back into one or two brood box...

07/11/2021

It was an odd year for honey production. The odd weather patterns this spring seemed to have an adverse effect on some flowering plants and trees my bees use to produce honey.....so it's looking like it's going to be a very down year for honey. I'll still have some for sale, but not anywhere near what I've had in past years.

I grew more bees this year, so hopefully next year's harvest will be enough for everyone that buys honey from me.

07/06/2021

If you are interested in Honey this year, please DM me and I will contact you when it's ready sometime in August. Bulk rates available.

06/26/2021

Basswood trees provide the majority of our honey crop here in Central Wisconsin, but it's cyclical. Not every year is there a banner basswood flow...this yea...

06/19/2021

The nuc yard has done its job in becoming a resource yard for making mating nucs, splits and selling nucs. Raising my own queens has been a lot of work, but ...

06/12/2021

For many, marking queens is an intimidating task, but practice makes perfect.Marking queens keeps track of which queens you have in your hives as well as a t...

06/06/2021

Five frame Nucleus colonies for sale. Comes with a 2021 laying queen.
$175.00
Bring 5 wooden frames with new plastic foundation at pickup and they are only $150 each.
Limited supply

Pickup 6/19/2021

I will also have virgin queens available. Carniolan open mated from Wisconsin winter survivor queens. These will be available on 6-12-21. $10each. Limited supply.

DM me to get on list.

06/06/2021

Checking on the status of two frame honeybee mating nucs for queens grafted on 5-9-21 and released into the mating nucs as virgins on 5-20-21. Mated queens ...

05/23/2021

First round of queens is just about ready...the rain has me delayed a bit getting my mating-nucs prepared for new queen cells. I show how I shake down coloni...

05/22/2021

Sometimes a bad experience prompts me to do a video on the subject. This is just such a video. The title says it all....bees are livestock and you should get...

05/22/2021

05/09/2021

Part 1 video I explained the cell builder I use and the equipment needed.In Part 2 here, I show the actual process of building the cell starter/finisher f...

05/09/2021

I describe how I am going to build my cell starter/finisher in depth and all the equipment and resources necessary to start grafting my own queen cells. See ...

05/02/2021

It's May 1st, so the start of beekeeping season here in Wisconsin really begins in earnest. Assessing colony strength, nutrition, mite levels are all on the ...

04/24/2021

Back in June 2020 I installed some 48hr old grafted queen cells into mating nucs. This is a post winter early spring update on how those mated queens are pr...