The Good Life – July-August 2017
Featuring WDAY Reporter Kevin Wallevand - Fargo's most famous storyteller. Local Hero - Navy Veteran, Shane Tibiatowski. Having a Beer with Dilworth Mayor - Chad Olson and more in Fargo Moorhead's only men's magazine.
Featuring WDAY Reporter Kevin Wallevand - Fargo's most famous storyteller. Local Hero - Navy Veteran, Shane Tibiatowski. Having a Beer with Dilworth Mayor - Chad Olson and more in Fargo Moorhead's only men's magazine.
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A Nuc, pronounced nuke, is a nucleus hive.<br />
It has four or five frames from a working<br />
hive including a queen.<br />
A honey bee<br />
flies 15 miles<br />
per hour<br />
other profession. Since those college days, he’s worked for<br />
several beekeepers and owned his own business.<br />
As with anything directly tied to nature, Morlock’s job and<br />
location changes with the passing of the seasons and the<br />
weather, but one thing remains constant: He’s always as<br />
busy as a you-know-what (a bee).<br />
<strong>The</strong> Seasons of Beekeeping<br />
January to June:<br />
After a new year has begun, Morlock places their existing<br />
hives into beautiful almond orchards for pollination. After<br />
that, Morlock and his wife, Juli, head back to Texas and start<br />
on the production of queen bees that will eventually be kept<br />
or sold.<br />
Eventually, they begin dividing the hives. Since some hives<br />
are lost throughout the year, this is their time to get the<br />
numbers back up and the bees healthy and strong. Splits<br />
(divided hives) are moved into new locations at least two<br />
miles apart from each other so the bees don’t find their way<br />
back to the original site. <strong>The</strong> following day, they add a queen<br />
cell and some feed. This process continues until the hives<br />
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