Ziegler Beekeeping and Honey Supply

Tonight I placed a bucket of sugar water out with pieces of styrofoam sheet pieces floating on the top. It took the bees about 5...

by Adam Ziegler in Open Sugar Feeding
2013-09-12, 8:36 pm | Tags: feeding


Yesterday I noted that Nuc#3 was ready to swarm. It was late in the day, and thought I might have time today to split up the bees....

by Adam Ziegler in Missed the split...
2013-07-10, 5:44 pm


I culled a small amount of old comb from hTBH and from Warre#1 today. From the comb I was able to harvest 18-20 pounds of honey....

by Adam Ziegler in Culled comb
2013-06-29, 8:35 pm


Was a bit late getting over the the new property to remove the screens. It was warm, and the bees were ready to exit the hive. ...

by Adam Ziegler in Screens removed...
2013-06-25, 5:16 pm


Large storm last night cooled down the area and kept the bees confined to the hive most of the day. By the time I got home from work...

by Adam Ziegler in Some hives moved...
2013-06-24, 11:27 pm


Nuc#1 Checked the queen cells. The where ripped open from the sides suggesting that another queen,or laying worker did it. I ended...

by Adam Ziegler in Not a laying worker?
2013-06-18, 11:24 am


Sometime between the hours of noon and 4pm, nuc#5 (collected yesterday)swarmed... completely. In hindsight, the swarm did not settle...

by Adam Ziegler in The swarm swarmed...
2013-06-16, 4:19 pm


At my son's t-ball game this evening. Kept hearing folks talking about a tree next to the port-a-potty. My ears perked up when...

by Adam Ziegler in T-Ball Swarm
2013-06-13, 8:43 pm | Tags: swarms


Swarm still up in close by tree. No luck at shaking them down. Cluster looks to be about 3-4 lbs of bees. Nuc#1 Frame of eggs...

by Adam Ziegler in Nuc 1 is fixed?
2013-06-08, 9:21 am


hTBH It seems that the queen I removed to place in Nuc#3 certainly did not return here, as it is loaded with queen cells. Form the...

by Adam Ziegler in Queen Cells and Swarms
2013-06-07, 3:42 pm


Nuc#2 Is honey and pollen bound. At least 8 empty queen cells, at least 2 of the cells were torn open. No signs of a laying queen....

by Adam Ziegler in Hive Inspections
2013-05-21, 10:13 am


Took a trip to Dixon Illinois to pickup two queen less nucs. There was a completed queen cell in one hive and a couple started cells...

by Adam Ziegler in Two new nucs
2013-05-03, 9:15 pm | Tags: nuc-hives


Last July I split a hTBH and used OTS queen rearing methods to get a new queen. The methods worked, and I was able to find evidence...

by Adam Ziegler in Found the Elusive Queen
2013-04-14, 9:21 am


After some nice 50 F weather, we received quite a bit of snow yesterday. This post is really just a test to see how pictures are...

by Adam Ziegler in Winter again...
2013-03-26, 12:40 pm


Last fall one of the hives I had split was overcome with mites, and dropping in numbers. While the hive managed to make it past Christmas,...

by Adam Ziegler in Spring observations
2013-03-25, 9:41 am


This is an example of some of the 5 frame medium nuc hives I build. The outside dimensions are 9-1/4" x 19-7/8". The sides are...

by Adam Ziegler in 5 frame mediaum nuc
2012-12-23, 8:06 am