Thanksgiving Bees In A Shed-PartTwo

JP · November 27, 2010, 11:31:51 PM

I went back yesterday and today.

Yesterday a front came in with rain and much colder temps, in fact down to around 40. I didn't have time to fool with them yesterday so today we danced.

There were a good number of bees in the nuc but also two tight clumps of bees near the entrance where the hive was removed.

I vacuumed a good bit of bees along with the queen.

Housed them and let them orient to the set up.

Went and picked them up tonight around 8.

Didn't need to seal the entrance as they were tightly clustered inside the nuc, nothing on the shed, so got them all.

BTW, when you see me yell like a school girl its from a bee that had unknowingly traveled a good ways up my pant leg. :-D

These bees are extremely gentle.

...JP

Thanksgiving Bees-Part Two

Eric-WD · November 28, 2010, 12:17:41 AM

thanks for posting this

Eric

JP · November 28, 2010, 12:21:00 AM

Your welcome Eric, glad you enjoyed it!

...JP

Tommyt · November 28, 2010, 09:24:19 AM

Yep another good Video
The little Leg chirp was funny

Tommyt

JP · November 28, 2010, 10:45:53 AM

She didn't get me, just surprised the heck outta me! :-D

...JP

Bee Happy · November 28, 2010, 12:48:46 PM

I see them fanning at the end, I guess they all got reoriented into the nuc. these videos make me want to do the occasional removal, even though I never planned that originally. (I'd probably only do swarms on word-of-mouth anyway.)

JP · November 28, 2010, 04:29:33 PM

They were flying this morning around 10. I released the queen then. The nuc was chock full of bees. Looking good!

...JP

AllenF · November 28, 2010, 05:22:48 PM

I was wondering, did you see any queen cells in the frames you had in the nuc since they were without the queen or a day or two? Great video, loved the fanning at the end.

JP · November 28, 2010, 05:55:35 PM

Allen, no queen cells. I reckon when the pressure dropped all they had on their mind was clustering.

...JP

JP · March 04, 2011, 03:26:51 PM

Thanksgiving bees were placed in a medium box today. The queen is a laying beast. I gave them a frame of honey about ten days ago and they've consumed 99% of both sides and most all cells of this same frame have eggs in them. All other frames have capped brood/larvae. They started making drones because they were getting a little too congested in the medium nuc I had them in.

They have space now to expand which put smiles on all their little faces. I could not get them to hold still long enough for a group picture but trust me, they are very happy girls! ;)

...JP

jmblakeney · March 09, 2011, 12:28:35 AM

You seem to go through an awfull lot of nucs. Do you build them yourself (meaning you cut the wood) or buy them unassembled?

JP · March 09, 2011, 01:08:20 AM

JM I believe you meant to say "nucs" correct? I get them from Rossman apiaries. http://www.gabees.com/store/index.php?cPath=40&osCsid=b89e09bec69d667af359972361dafc84

...JP

jmblakeney · March 09, 2011, 01:18:45 AM

:lau: :lau: :lau: :lau:
I can't believe I didn't catch that. I kinda feel embarrassed now. Lol. My phone has auto-correct on and I didn't realize it changed "nucs" sorry bout that.
Yeah that is what I was meaning. I'll go back and correct it, I don't want to offend anyone. Thanks.

James

hardwood · March 09, 2011, 01:47:19 AM

JP don't feed dem bees just sugar water no...he springs for pistachios too! Especially during Saints games :-D

Scott