Another One Bites the Dust

Feral hive with no bees flying in
and out of it

It's official. The feral hive which the City of Ann Arbor's forestry department delivered to Matthaei Botanical Gardens is also dead. Winn thought as much when he was out here a couple weeks ago, and there was no sign of life today in this 56 degree weather.

Dumped out the other dead hive for the mice to eat. The hive looks very clean inside, so it will be a nice home for the Georgia package that I'll be getting soon.

Onward.

Mouse food

Winner

Winn Harliss is a master at making something out of nothing. I am on a cleaning binge that has extended from my house to my office to the entire Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Put those two things together, and you get some beautiful swarm traps.

Any beekeepers out there who can use corrugated plastic or foam core for observation boards, swarm traps or anything else, let me know. There is still a good-sized stack of old interpretive signs looking for a new purpose in life.

And thanks, Winn, for turning my favorite sign into something of value again.

Swarm trap designed and built by master beekeeper Winn Harliss
out of old Matthaei Botanical Gardens interpretive signs