# Hello from Interior Alaska

**URL:** https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/hello-from-interior-alaska/38788
**Category:** Introductions
**Created:** [April 15, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/hello-from-interior-alaska/38788 "2025-04-15T00:54:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![smroy82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@smroy82](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/smroy82)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/hello-from-interior-alaska/38788/1 "2025-04-15T00:54:15Z")

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Hello from North Pole Alaska. Newbie build my hive over the winter. I will be getting my nuc on the 24th. Can’t wait to start my journey.

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### Author: ![Lilliana](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/lilliana/32/30251_2.png) [@Lilliana](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Lilliana)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2025, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/hello-from-interior-alaska/38788/2 "2025-04-25T07:13:15Z")

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Hello and congrats. It would be great to hear how you’re going all the way up there!

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### Author: ![Eva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@Eva](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Eva)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2025, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/hello-from-interior-alaska/38788/3 "2025-04-25T08:34:05Z")

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Welcome Shane, and Lilliana! Wow,  
North Pole, Montenegro, beekeepers and Flow (or should I say ‘floe’ 😁) are truly everywhere 🌏

Shane, here’s a couple links to older posts by other Alaskans and winter survival - maybe they are still around!

> [@Hello and looking for other "arctic" bees](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/hello-and-looking-for-other-arctic-bees/1275):
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> Hello out there! My name is Kelly. The flow hive will be my first hive. I’ve been considering getting bees for quite some time, but we also weren’t settled anywhere long enough for me to feel comfortable starting. Recently my husband and I decided we would settle in Alaska’s interior (where we have been for the past two years). A little after making that decision and deciding I would start a hive in the 2016 season we found the flow hive and he was amazing enough to order one for me. I just w…

> [@Hello from Alaska!](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/hello-from-alaska/6616):
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> Hey from Alaska! I just got my bees a week ago and have since found eggs! Very excited. I wanted to share some videos. I have two hives… one flow and one polystyrene. I plan to overwinter the bees. My videos of all my beekeeping are at [www.youtube.com/beast9156](http://www.youtube.com/beast9156) Please subscribe if you like them so you’ll see them as soon as i post more. slight_smile

Please update us on how your season goes! I’m in Pennsylvania US, with 7 colonies after splitting 3 strong ones of 4 that came thru winter. They’re building back up and it’s almost time for me to super I think. Inspection on Saturday will tell.

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### Author: ![smroy82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@smroy82](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/smroy82)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/hello-from-interior-alaska/38788/4 "2025-05-17T01:16:24Z")

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Things have been going good so far. A little hiccup with an early queen release, she didn’t survive it but the hive has been requeened and they are build up the comb very quick in the brood box. Temps have been cooler at night right now high 30s. But with the way it’s going won’t be long before I need to add my super cause they are just moving along.

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### Author: ![smroy82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@smroy82](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/smroy82)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/hello-from-interior-alaska/38788/5 "2025-05-17T01:18:25Z")

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Things are going good a little hiccup at first with a early queen release she didn’t survive but I got the hive requeened and they are just going along building up the comb in the brood box fast not. They way it’s going it won’t be long before I neeed to add the super.
