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OMG! So that's the reason why all fish have vanished from my pond! I was suspecting the dux…

Does a queen not need any assistance bees? When i receive packaged bees, the queen is locked away in the queen-cage, together with a couple of bees from (i assume) her original hive to care for her.

Picture? :pop First time i hear of this plant! - Sounds very interesting. By tomorrow evening i shall receive my Haskap shrub, it promises lots of flowers (in a couple of years) and plenty of yummy blue berries (in a couple of years).

Very interesting! - I didn't knew that something like this even exists. Thank you very much for the info!

It is definitely warmer here! - I have planted some of them into a container for my patio and they are already tall: And i have finally decided where in the "wild" to plant the remaining tubers.

Rinse, then polish with shower-cloth, 30 seconds. Also distracts birds of prey by reflecting the sun's light… 😉

The issue with that armor is, that it will make a »ping« sound for every attempted sting… 🤣

Hair needs maintenance = time-waster. :lau Or another saying: When wisdom grows, hair needs to go, there's not enough room for both. 😜

I change the syrup-glasses without wearing an gear, lifting up the cover, take the empty feeder out, putting the full feeder in, close the top. But for everything else i put on my sting-proof suit: Rubber-Boots, Blue Jeans, Hoodie, Hat with veil and welding-gloves.

What hair? :lau

I received my first bee sting! - I did nothing wrong, was working in front of the garage, cutting plywood for my compost-sieve when a bee just landed on my head and immediately stung me. Must have been a suicidal bee from my crazy neigbor…

Finally an update on the hive with the packaged bees: The queen is fully functioning: Exactly two weeks after installing the bees i found capped and open brood as well as cells with eggs. As recommended i pulled the frames starting from the outside in and on both sides the third frame had brood...

Still have not been able to check on my hive for brood… Just too much else came up here, first the weather was uncooperative, then - heck! - Monday is tax-day! And now it is too hot here to dress up, 90F outside. But apparently the bees are doing fine, i flipped the entrance reducer yesterday to...

I thought so too, but i will wait until the temperatures are more bee friendly, Sunday at least or maybe Tuesday. When refilling the syrup yesterday they all were huddled up in the brood box.

So, i have installed the packaged bees on Monday. When should i inspect the hive for brood?

In theory the chlorine could in fact react with the sucrose to form sucralose aka. Splenda. However that reaction needs high pressure and some time and the chlorine is gassing out of the water withing a few minutes. The hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose is very slow and needs acid...

The 100% total area is just a three hour drive from here, so i will definitely take a road trip to Ohio if the weather is not an absolute mess on Monday.

I let the whole syrup boil for at least a minute, just to make sure that any random mold-spore or bacteria-cyst is dead before i fill it into glass-cans for storage. And i add a tad of vitamin-c as an anti-oxidant.

Yeah, i fell asleep yesterday evening, so no candy board. But i cooked up a batch of 1:1 sugar syrup for them. Now i need to wade through the mud and put the feeder back. They have been pretty busy with the pollen patty so far.

Update on the bees: They are all alive and well, despite the terrible weather we had since Monday night. I finally managed to give them ½ pollen patty today. They will get the other half once the humidity has eased up a bit. They have finished their syrup, so this evening i need to brew some...