Olivia M Menard

Wherever the deer were today it wasn't on my side of this clearing. I still wouldn't have traded the experience of watching the sunrise over these trees for anything. @artemis_sportswomen @kyfishwildlife #conservation #artemis_georgia (at Vine Grove, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWyCaLkltSK/?utm_medium=tumblr

Watched a good herd last night whose buck population got real interesting just past shooting light. Tonight may be the night 🌌 @huntersafetysystem @badlandsgear @vortexoptics @artemis_sportswomen @nationalwildlife @artemisgeorgia @gawildlifefederation @kyfishwildlife @georgiawildlife (at Vine Grove, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWrIR73Jwn0/?utm_medium=tumblr

Ready to watch the sun set over another beautiful piece of woods (at Vine Grove, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWoh6IMpKuT/?utm_medium=tumblr

Birding at the Etowah Indian Mounds and learning about the physiographic provinces of Georgia after a weekend of hunting what I now know to be ridge and valley areas in Northwest Georgia. (at Etowah Indian Mounds) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWS_tkplCqY/?utm_medium=tumblr

Take a day for yourself every now and then @artemis_sportswomen @georgiawildlife @bhageorgia @deerassociation (at Chickamauga, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWNzubxrAzT/?utm_medium=tumblr

#ItsDeerThirty #GirlsCanDoAnything #MakeItHappen #HuntSafe #GeorgiaOutdoors #GeorgiaQuail #GeorgiaBobwhites (at Columbus, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVaSbtKLErt/?utm_medium=tumblr

Some people walk with you one day and move on with their own path never crossing yours again. When a friend comes along they walk with you a bit. Sit with you a bit. Talk with you a bit. And leave a big impression. @artemis_sportswomen @gawildlifefederation @georgiawildlife @deerassociation @georgiasci @official_nwtf (at Columbus, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVZZ2TyM-iD/?utm_medium=tumblr

🐍Hmmm? What would this little feller have eaten to give him that curvy look? #GeorgiaWildlife #SnakesofInstagram #WhatDidIEat #GeorgiaOutdoors #InTheWoods (at Lawrenceville, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUVWT4xFyHi/?utm_medium=tumblr

I did it!!!!! 🐝UGA Journeyman Beekeeper🐝 (at Gainesville, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUOTn_Vldxu/?utm_medium=tumblr

Since retiring last August I have wondered from time to time whether my stress level has really dropped or if I have kept myself at the same working stress level. Preparing for the Journeyman Beekeeper exam and driving up to Gainesville yesterday to take the exam I fully felt the pre-retirement working stress level 😳 🤞Thankfully, the anticipation of waiting for the results today is nothing compared to the excitement leading up to the actual test 🤞 (at Gainesville, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUNa93mFpZR/?utm_medium=tumblr

Awaiting the arrival of the new puppy the best way I know how...chopping and roasting veggies. Home made from scratch pizza and pasta sauces for the Menard Household through winter! #EatMoreVeggies #Pizza #PizzaSauce #Pasta #Canning #NewPuppy (at Lawrenceville, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CT15JsmB92B/?utm_medium=tumblr

What do the Menards do when a tree takes out our water, gas, and the bridge that connected us to society? Roll out the grill and light up the charcoal. Thank the stars our @blueapron box got here before the tree did! Anyone know any good bridge builders? #veggiesforeverymeal #grilledshrimp #shrimponthebarbie #2020isntoveryet (at Gwinnett County, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRzunlJlFOR/?utm_medium=tumblr

Weather here in the SouthEast has been downright dreary lately 🌨️ How do we press forward with regular checks for brood, food, and pests? 🐝Carefully 🐝 Just like us, on damp overcast days bees just want to stay inside. This can mean a lot of bees ready to rush at any unsuspecting creature who chooses to pop off the lid and peek in the hive (i.e. Us, beekeepers!) Consider giving the hive a little heft to check the weight, instead. If you use clear or screened inner covers, you can pull up the outer cover and give a quick mite check, too. How are your brood, food, and pests this week? (at Lawrenceville, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRed1bRlgLC/?utm_medium=tumblr

Monroe Area High School's honeybee hives are being well received by some local honeybees! 🐝🏵️ What is there not to love??? 📐📏Reverse engineered by students from samples. 🪵👷‍♀️Hand built by students in the new state of the art Engineering lab. 🌺🏵️🍄Decorated by the talented students in the Art department. 🐝Great job MAHS students and staff🐝 MAHS students and staff - if you want to be involved during the 2021-2022 school year keep your 👀 eye out for a survey from Crowe this week! We would love you to join us in the Hurricane Hives program! https://www.instagram.com/p/CRCiHcEF7yM/?utm_medium=tumblr

Honey is flowing in like crazy here in Georgia. As the honey harvest increases, so do the pests. This week I found a few random hive beetles, then one hive has traps filled with tiny ants. What pests have y'all seen this week? (at Lawrenceville, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ_3F5oFsVo/?utm_medium=tumblr

What a beautiful day for a hive inspection Georgia! And during the nectar flow, to boot! #LocalHoney #Honeybees #Georgia #GeorgiaGrown #BuyLocal #BeesInTheBackyard https://www.instagram.com/p/CPofHcblcN-/?utm_medium=tumblr

Looks like the splits are doing great! I was a little late getting to two of the hives, but the girls don't seem to have minded. They have plenty of queen cells to go around! 👑 Prior to the nectar flow a split is a great way to create a brood break in a hive for a more effective Oxalic Acid vapor treatment. Typically varroa mites feed and breed on honeybee brood. At just a few days old, honeybee larvae are given enough food to get them through the last weeks of their development. Nurse bees then cover the larvae under the safety of capped honeycomb cells where the brood and their food are sealed. 🚼🍼 Varroa mites get into the cells and hide on the tiny baby bees before the cells are capped, then feed and breed on the baby bees. Ew! Beekeepers can interrupt this cycle, expose the mites, and increase the efficacy of our mite treatments with a brood break. In this case, I split the original hive into two hives by moving the queen and a few frames of brood to a new location. 🐝 At day 21 after removing the queen from the original hive there will be no capped brood. No capped brood means all the varroa mites hanging out in the hive will be phoretic (attached to bees or walking around). Phoretic mites have zero protection from cell cappings. At day 21 this hive will get treated with oxalic acid vapor and the mite population will be decimated 🧨💥 #GeorgiaGrown #NowMoreThanEver #Honeybees #VarroaTreatment #Beekeeper #OhHoney #RawHoney https://www.instagram.com/p/CPWDKJDjbpm/?utm_medium=tumblr