Bumble bees on wild sunflowers in our front garden. 🐝🌼🌱
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A bumble bee on a flower in our garden. 🐝🌼🌱
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Last night during dinner, Jenn kindly shared the sugar on the rim of her beverage with some bees. 🍸🐝
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On the homestead blog: a quick post about our honey harvest yesterday. 🐝🍯
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A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of watching activity on the Turquoise beehive:
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A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of watching one of our beehives:
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On the homestead blog: yesterday we did a beehive inspection and mite treatment. 🐝
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A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of trying to record the sound of hundreds of bees in a flowering tree, but the chickens were being too noisy:
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Bees visiting a flowering tree; the tree is totally humming with them. 🌳🌼🐝
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On the homestead blog: yesterday we did our first inspection of our beehives of the year, now that it’s warming up enough to open the hives. 🐝
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My most popular @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video so far was this simple pan over our beehives; I guess people enjoy the bright colors (we do too):
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On the homestead blog: more pictures from our ice storm: generator, chickens, ducks, bees. ❄️🔌🐓🦆🐝❄️
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Remember flowers? None blooming around here at present, but I still have a bunch of unpublished pictures from summer, so here are a couple of peppermint flowers with bees, taken in August. I hope our bees are hibernating well. 🌱🌼🐝
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On the homestead blog: we did a quick half-hour visit to our beehives today, to swap out the mite treatment strips and add "bee juice”, a syrup of sugar water to help the bees build up their winter stores, since there aren’t many flowers blooming at this time of year. 🐝
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On the homestead blog: today we added mite treatments and top feeders to all of our beehives, preparing them for fall and winter. 🐝
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Flowers of the day, adjacent to the veggie garden: Greek oregano, another favorite of bees (as beekeepers, we appreciate plants they like). 🌱🌼🐝
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On the homestead blog: harvesting honey from our beehives. 🐝🍯
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Flowers of the day: since I used a pumpkin flower as my What’s It Wednesday question yesterday, it only makes sense to feature it as the flower of the day today, with a tiny pumpkin in the first pic, and a pollen-covered bee in the next ones. 🌱🎃🐝
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Flowers of the day: dahlia, with a bee trying to get in. 🌱🐝
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Flowers of the day: a self-seeded butterfly-bush in one of our flowerbeds, fairly popular with our bees. 🌱🐝
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Flowers of the day: frazzled daisies, with a bee closeup in the second picture. 🌱
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