I have just started my very own honey factory.
I was going to ha e two hives but decided to just buy one batch of bees, in case I kill them instead of two.
I can use advice from anyone and everyone with experience.
I do not plan to over winter my bees. I will use them as protein for the birds when their work is done.
My bee box:
I have it level side to side and and 1/8th bubble high on the back side.
Here are my new workers;
this was right after I moved them into their new home.
I was out and visited them a little bit ago. There were 50-100 bees crawling on the box above the door. I hope that’s normal.
I have Saskartraz bees. I think that’s because the Sasquatch developed them.
@R2elk might know more. As I said these are my first ones.
I know they were friendly and would purr when they sat on my arm, so I could pet them.
It was a tad intimidating to have a box of bees clumped together and buzzing like mad in my hands. I was not sure how getting them into the box would go.
It was not bad, I took the queen out first. She assured me we would get along fine and she had no hostility towards me. Hopefully, she pays her rent.
Her box had a wood plug and not a candy plug in it. I popped the plug out and put a marshmallow into the hole.
I hung her box between two supers, then dumped the rest into the box and replaced the supers I had removed to make space to dump them.
All of this was accomplished without a sting!
I am a tad nervous they won’t like my box and leave tonight.
I gave them a pollen patty and a jug of sugar water inside the box and I have a chick waterer set up outside the hive for them.
They have been here 4 hours. I will check on them in an hour or so.
I was going to ha e two hives but decided to just buy one batch of bees, in case I kill them instead of two.
I can use advice from anyone and everyone with experience.
I do not plan to over winter my bees. I will use them as protein for the birds when their work is done.
My bee box:
I have it level side to side and and 1/8th bubble high on the back side.
Here are my new workers;
this was right after I moved them into their new home.
I was out and visited them a little bit ago. There were 50-100 bees crawling on the box above the door. I hope that’s normal.
I have Saskartraz bees. I think that’s because the Sasquatch developed them.
@R2elk might know more. As I said these are my first ones.
I know they were friendly and would purr when they sat on my arm, so I could pet them.
It was a tad intimidating to have a box of bees clumped together and buzzing like mad in my hands. I was not sure how getting them into the box would go.
It was not bad, I took the queen out first. She assured me we would get along fine and she had no hostility towards me. Hopefully, she pays her rent.
Her box had a wood plug and not a candy plug in it. I popped the plug out and put a marshmallow into the hole.
I hung her box between two supers, then dumped the rest into the box and replaced the supers I had removed to make space to dump them.
All of this was accomplished without a sting!
I am a tad nervous they won’t like my box and leave tonight.
I gave them a pollen patty and a jug of sugar water inside the box and I have a chick waterer set up outside the hive for them.
They have been here 4 hours. I will check on them in an hour or so.