Horseshoe Hives

06/25/2025

Roadside stand is back up and running!

05/10/2025

Swarm #1 in 2025 caught with one of our traps in our woods.

If you happen to see a swarm of bees, please contact us as we can come rescue them. Swarm season is in full swing right now.

03/30/2025

Checked on all of the bee hives yesterday. Right now 4 of our 13 hives didn’t make it. The other 9 looked pretty strong and had lots of brood on the frames.

This percentage making through the winter is still significantly higher than the national average. Something nation wide has been affecting the bees. Take a look at this article and video:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bee-deaths-food-supply-stability-honeybees/

We are probably 2-3 weeks out from the start of honeybee swarm season. If you happen to see a swarm, please reach out.

Bees play a key role in the U.S. food supply, and the mass deaths could jeopardize that.

02/07/2025

Posting some videos from this week’s warm day as the bees were able to get out and fly on Monday February 3rd. So far so good on them making it through winter.

Next 4-5 weeks will be critical if they can survive through this winter. Crossing our fingers!

08/17/2024

Finished harvesting this year’s crop of honey. We had 7 honey production hives that produced a whopping total of 600.8 pounds of honey! That came from processing 176 frames which then had enough honey to fill 12, 5 gallon pails!

On to bottling the honey! Let us know if you are interested in honey. We will have the road side stand setup today!

06/29/2024

Forgot to post about our 5th swarm caught on 10 June. It was a small swarm but the interesting part was that it was a queenless swarm. But we just installed a queen from Bee Blessed Apriary in Warsaw.

05/25/2024

Just caught our 4th swarm of the year. Happened to be driving by one of our traps and thought a bag or something got stuck on it from the storms yesterday. Turned out to be a pretty good sized swarm that was in the process of moving in!

If anyone happens to see a swarm, please IM us and we will come get it and rescue it and place it in our Apiary.

04/29/2024

Got our second swarm of the season on Monday, April 22nd. Was walking by the woods and heard them starting to swarm and then tracked them to where they landed on a branch 12 feet up. Was able to rescue them and get them into a box.

They came from a natural hole in a tree what looks like 50 feet up!

Even found the queen!

04/15/2024

Just caught our first swarm of the season here in Warsaw which seems super early. Was driving by and one of my neighbors had this massive swarm in his tree.

We checked our 5 hives and it didn’t come from our hives. Anyway, look to have started off with a good one!

If you happen to see a swarm like this one, please call or message us and we will come rescue it!

02/20/2024