Triple J Honeybee Farms

Triple J Honeybee Farms Local raised Queens Nucs Honey Wax

Caught this Queen taking orientation flights. Should have mated Queen laying eggs in a few days.
06/19/2026

Caught this Queen taking orientation flights. Should have mated Queen laying eggs in a few days.

Sourwood show trees are open at 900 feet elevation. Honeybees working it in the morning
06/13/2026

Sourwood show trees are open at 900 feet elevation. Honeybees working it in the morning

Thursday, we caught out Queens. Give Terry Dyson a call. 3368136980.
06/11/2026

Thursday, we caught out Queens. Give Terry Dyson a call. 3368136980.

Thursday. Queens are caught out today. If you need some. Give us a call. 3368136980
05/28/2026

Thursday.
Queens are caught out today. If you need some. Give us a call. 3368136980

For the 3d year I have gotten through the corn planting, and soybeans planting with pristine brood. The only variable wa...
05/26/2026

For the 3d year I have gotten through the corn planting, and soybeans planting with pristine brood. The only variable was the removal of Dicamba herbicide from the market. Was taken off market for fish but the honeybees and pollinators sure did benefit! Wonder when and if the EPA will ever count baby bees in there LD for how toxic these chemicals are?

Someone got a really productive queen!
05/26/2026

Someone got a really productive queen!

Let there be Queens! Queens avaliable 336-492-7564
05/08/2026

Let there be Queens! Queens avaliable 336-492-7564

So this queen took time out from egg laying to pick and open up a Drone cell. Guess she had to make sure it wasn't a riv...
04/26/2026

So this queen took time out from egg laying to pick and open up a Drone cell. Guess she had to make sure it wasn't a rival queen!

03/12/2026

Recently, the Henderson County Board of Commissioners voted to accept a state grant funded by the NCDA&CS to pay farmers who agree to put deed restrictions on their land to ensure it remains farmland forever!

According to Farmland Coordinator Angela Price, "development is going to happen. We can't prevent that as much as people want to. The goal is to contain the development within city limits and keep rural outskirts farming." Learn more in the Blueridgenow /Asheville Citizen Times article below!

➡ https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2026/03/03/program-to-preserve-farmland-in-perpetuity-gets-cash-infusion-from-nc/88905659007/?tbref=hp

Some of you may be alarmed that your hives have no brood yet here in North Carolina. We had 3 solid weeks of well below ...
02/14/2026

Some of you may be alarmed that your hives have no brood yet here in North Carolina. We had 3 solid weeks of well below normal temperatures. I registered a 5 and a 7 degree start to a cold day. We basically are seeing New England weather here. Bees in New England and Canada haven't woke up yet.
The Maples will also be behind but when pollen starts coming in ( a little pollen substitute would be in order) the bees will ramp up the queen. But remember basic bee math. It will be 21 days before young bees start hatching. So old bees that were exposed to pesticides and varroa mite virus are having to carry on young bee duties. That means their numbers will diminish quickly. So expect cluster size to go down dramatically for the next 3 weeks. While queens can survive cold weather better than workers the semen they carry can't so some queens with small clusters may become drone layers. Cold weather doesn't kill bees if they are properly prepared.
Soooo If you use basic bee math It will be 3 weeks before we have young bees to raise queens, 12 days from grapht till Queens hatch 6 days to mature and 3 days till you have a mated queen in perfect weather ( 69 degree day, sun shining and low wind). and could take 2 weeks or more to get them mated. Then weather will dictate when packages and nucs can be made up.
Beekeeping is quite dynamic. So every year thing change. There is no set in stone date when nector flows start or when you make splits or when to do mite treatments, or when you start nucs. etc,
etc.
You can expect all packages and nucs will be delayed this year. And remember Florida had 26 degree days also.
An additional problem is about the time the bees get going and start to catch up the BIG GREEN MONSTER bee killing machine will be giving them their yearly dose of pesticides. And the corn and soy planting will begin giving them a good dose of neonics. So we may have a substandard honey year and substantial loss of bee colonies and neonic damaged queens and a tremendous need for supplemental feed next fall.
There is more here than meets the eye but 2026 will be remembered as "The year the bees froze out". Again cold weather doesn't kill healthy well prepared honeybee colonies!

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595 Duke Whittaker Road
Mocksville, NC
27028

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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(336) 492-7564

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