Thank you to the LBA Members who’ve submitted images for the gallery. Submissions are always welcome.
Members of the Leatherstocking Beekeepers’ Association at a deadout inspection. When mice find their way to the honey covered gloves of a beekeeper, the damage can be shocking.Member Mike Hoyt’s apiary in his first winter of beekeeping.Stephanie, Larissa, Jennifer, Kiril, Maria, and Oskar the Beekeeper manned the booth for the Leatherstocking Beekeepers’ Association at the Otsego County Conservation Association Earth Day Festival. April 2024Oskar the Beekeeper was at the 2024 Earth Day Festival in Milford, NY, to chat about bees. April 21, 2024.One way to feed the bees and deal with winter condensation is to roll white sugar into newspaper and place it in the top of the hive under the outercover. It absorbs moisture and when the bees find it they have a nice snack.This beekeeper wanted to save a section of wildcomb her bees made, so she rubberbanded it into a frame. The bees turned it into a whole frame of beeswax and filled it with honey.The cluster of this dead out became so small that they couldn’t keep their queen warm. March, 2024. These bees were healthy looking, other than being dead. March, 2024.A layer of dead bees at the bottom of a deadout in Middlefield. March 2024.Leatherstocking Beekeepers’ gathered at the Apiary of Walt Heinrich, Schenevus, for a workshop on conducting a hive inspection. They learned how to handle frames, manipulate a hive tool, and to read the bees. Held July, 2023.Oskar Grechkin volunteering at the honey table at the 2023 New York State fair, educating the public about honey bees.Oskar the Beekeeper points out his jar of honey on the winners shelf at the New York State fair where he took home the second place ribbon in 2023.This mother mouse has found a home in Dave’s apiary. In early spring, the mouse welcomed a litter.Mice aren’t the only jerks who come to bother hives.This raccoon is another jerk.Bears are not welcome around hives.This is why bears are not welcome around hives.Daylight robbery. These bees are overwhelming a weak hive.
