Sep 25, 2017
Congratulations, you've just purchased a quality nucleus colony with a newly-mated queen from selected stock!
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Congratulations, you've just purchased a quality nucleus colony with a newly-mated queen from selected stock!
moving day for the bees!!!
they did a great job and the new queenie is happily productive, so we are ecstatic to say the least lol! spot her with the yellow dot up there. ive been calling her griselda because it means strong woman, and that is exactly what she is.
We are letting this hive build their own comb from scratch (usually we give them wax foundations) so very excited to see how they do.
anyways. viva la bees 🐝 🎉💛☀️
DAWN OF A NEW SEASON
We beegin, again.
Last winter, the bees died, every last one of them. So this past weekend, we took another long drive deep into northwestern Pennsylvania and came home with three nucs which we installed in the empty hive boxes vacated by our late lamented bees.
It didn’t take long for the new girls to make themselves at home. By the next morning we had traffic flying in and out of all three of our horizontal hive boxes: High, Low and Layens.
We can stand across the street and see the bees taking off and landing. (If you life in the ‘hood, you can do it, too!) Davey says we have a much happier roof.
One thing we’ve done differently this year is our placement of the Layens hive. We’ve moved it from the west side of the roof to the east, so it gets first sunlight. (Last year, Layens was always slow to stir we think because it took longer for the sun to reach it.) But its new location is a bit of a trade-off. Now, the Layens gets more sun, but it’s also in very close proximity to an air conditioning unit with big, bee-mutilating fans. We may have to re-evaluate once the hot weather arrives and the A/C kicks in.
So we’re off, wish us better luck this year.
KILLERS, NOT QUITTERS
Despite any regrets (and like an infamous crooner, we've had a few) about the actions or inactions that contributed to the demise of tens of thousands of sentient beings in our care, we shall “bee” again. We resolve to do better.
So this past week, Davey went hunting for nucs. It sounds like something out of a Tom Clancy novel, but in reality it’s far more benign. It’s simply contacting local beekeepers (the definition of local expands with each unsuccessful contact) to ask if they have nucs to sell us in the spring. Wish us luck.
We’ll write if we get bees.