Wind knocked my nuc over.

[CWBees]

I woke up this morning to find one of my nucs knocked over by the wind. :( It was 3 deep nucs high which did not help and the ground was so wet due to the rains it made the brick foundation real unstable under the hives. I was happy to find the bees still in the hive when I went out to reassemble it. The bees were very aggressive when I did this and I am so suprised so many came out to meet me since it around 35 degrees and still real windy. I placed some supports on each side of the hive when I found that even placing two more bricks uner the hive did not help the stability of the hive too much since the ground is so wet. I think I might just eventually move this hive to a dryer part of the yard.

[JP]

Hey Chris if a big wind storm knocked your house over and you were thrown out in 35 degree weather butt naked would you be upset? Hey you could always go to candy mountain, where Charlies your best friend. Protect your kidneys though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPONTneuaF4


...JP

[MrILoveTheAnts]

3 deep hive in winter? Is the hive really big enough to warrant that? Last year I had a 2 deep hive that swarmed on me three times, before I finally put a stop to it by splitting it.

[CWBees]

3 deep hive in winter? Is the hive really big enough to warrant that? Last year I had a 2 deep hive that swarmed on me three times, before I finally put a stop to it by splitting it.

They  are deep nuc bodies of five frames a peice. At this time they could get away with two deep nuc bodies however going into the fall they were pretty strong and I rather store the extra nuc body on top of the hive so the wax moths don't get into it and it gives extra ventilation for the hive.

I have other hives that were two deep supers that went through the winter with shallow supers on top that I did not bother extracting honey from. Just like the nuc I rather have them stored on top of a hive.