David Avvisato – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:09:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 David Avvisato – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 The Backyard Buzz – The 70% Swarm Rule https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-backyard-buzz-the-70-swarm-rule/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-backyard-buzz-the-70-swarm-rule/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:18:02 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=1705 Swarm Season Back when my wife and I first started keeping bees, everything was fine and dandy until swarm season came along. Since we were only keeping bees for two years, our experience with swarms was not much at all. During the first year of keeping bees, we only had two hives and never noticed if they had […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-backyard-buzz-the-70-swarm-rule/feed/ 9 The Backyard Buzz – Transporting Bees Without Nuc Boxes https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-backyard-buzz-transporting-bees-without-nuc-boxes/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-backyard-buzz-transporting-bees-without-nuc-boxes/#comments Sat, 02 May 2015 01:10:39 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=1519 For readers who live in areas of the country with winters as harsh as those in Northeastern Pennsylvania, colony loss is expected in the spring. As we try to grow our apiary from year to year, winter losses are always a disappointing setback. Two years ago we decided to not just replace the hives lost over the winter, but to […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-backyard-buzz-winter-results/feed/ 7 The Backyard Buzz – Tips On Better Beekeeping https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-backyard-buzz-tips-on-better-beekeeping/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-backyard-buzz-tips-on-better-beekeeping/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2015 01:05:37 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=1338 Hello and welcome to The Backyard Buzz! My name is David Avvisato and along with my wife Anita we have been keeping bees for the past seven years in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Actually, I don’t know if we are really keeping bees or just providing temporary housing as they seem to come and go as they like, but […]

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