Day two (june 21, 2014): preparing the two nurse nucs 0830 at Liz’s house (Krz need to pick up eyeglasses at 0800 first): putting medium frames and nurse bees in one nuc. Waiting closing nuc off. Going over to Krz yard. Meeting Mel and Todd, preparing another nuc with deep […]
Here is a paper from a research group that tested if different shapes and colors help bees recognize their own hive in a grouping of hives. I know this is a unique shape that they can see: My nucs are ready with these shapes/colors to help our bees:
I had a quick look outside our nurse hive this early evening and there were bees flying in and out. There were also some bees just hanging out. They must have enough bodies to make our queen cells. Today is day 8. Our cells should be practically capped. Did not […]
I am painting 4 new nuc boxes, sanding, priming, etc. They are white now, hopefully green by this weekend. Each will have a distinctive front. I hope we have a lot of plump queen cells so that these nucs will have occupants. I can’t wait.
June 6, 2012 Nurse hive set up: [Show slideshow] Bees from 3 frames of capped brood shaken into a deep. Transported to Mel and Dawn’s yard. Additional nurse bees added by shaking all the bees from my Q1 queen hive (deep, 10 frames) into the new nurse hive. Q1 queen […]
