(http://kirbanita.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/3hives_beesgoingin.jpg)
The bees aren't in the hives and they are running free out of their shipping packages?
:?
Sincerely,
Brendhan
Hmmmm . . . . .
Installing packages in 2-story (too big) hives?
Hive entrances in shade behind brush?
Hives sitting unsecured atop supporting rails?
Oh, I know -- the lip edge of the inner cover isn't painted!
Do I get a cookie??? :-D
-- Kris
Your inner covers have no beespace? 1 hive went in already and the other 2 did not?
Enlighten us, please.
with the picture...
you have to bright background, the fella that is sort of in the picture, well his/hers head is missing, the left hive should also be in the picture fully
and now i've noticed the thing you're probably aiming at.
the second(the inner hive) upper box (medium is it??) has the left handle upside down, anyway it's not right.
Mici - Good eye! I looke at the picture for a while and didn't notice it...
He is useing what looks like a slatted rack on top of the bottom board
Mici gets the cookie the super handle was upside down on one.
Cody, are those your replacement bees? We lost a package, too, they upped and died within a week of us installing them :'(
make sure you airmail it, don't wanna wait a month to get it, it would get all hard and stuff. :-D
No just a random image
MICI it would be chips ahoy so it will last a while.
the main thing I see wrong is installing packages in with the medium on also, should always let them draw out the deep before put second story on, and aint that something about the handle, looks like Cody didn't catch that when he was putting them together :-D
I guess theres a hole in the top of the covers. Id have dumped em on the ground, but I dont know jack about bees really.
I doubt you will use the handles on the widest part of the super anyway. I dont.
I don't even cut handles on those sides when I build them!
-- Kris
Wow, don't those hives look so nice and clean. Mine used to look like that too. Now I am repainting all the boxes, they got pretty grungy looking after the bees' season. Nice pictures. Have a wonderful day. Cindi
Quote from: Kris^ on April 16, 2007, 08:25:18 AM
I don't even cut handles on those sides when I build them!
-- Kris
Hmmm do you use clets? if not o-boy that will be fun when they get them full