Bee Projects for the Weekend?

[Hethen57]

Anyone have any interesting bee projects planned for the weekend?....I need to mark a queen, buy a queen and do a split, make up a nuc, do some hive cleanup (burr comb, frame shuffling and dead bees), and get working on assembling some new frames.

[annette]

I need to pull weeds around the hives, check to see if the new queens I introduced on Thursday have been accepted, contact the 4H club and check on their hive to see if their queen is laying.

Thats it!!  An easy weekend for me.

[iddee]

A queen introduced on Thursday and checked on Sat. may well be un-accepted due to the intrusion. I would wait a minimum 4 days, preferably 7.

[Michael Bach]

For me I have to check and fill top hive feeders.  Check the pollen patty.

AND

Place my new english copper top covers on!

[wd]

check feed, make a push in queen cage or two, pull some weeds and whatever else may present itself.

[Hethen57]

You'll have to post some pictures of those covers Michael...sounds very upscale!  Sometime I would like to build one of those nice looking garden hives...they are like garden artwork, but it might make the rest of my normal hives look bad  :-D

[iddee]

This weekend..... Get the stuff ready for a cutout in the upstairs bedroom wall of an 1876 home.

Next Saturday... Do the removal, with 4 to 5 newbee trainees.

[The Bix]

too bad you're 2,200 miles away, would love to tag along!

[David LaFerney]

Between tornadoes I'm gonna try starting some queen cells using this method -

[manfre]

This is going to be a busy bee weekend for me. I'm moving an empty KTBH to a community garden in preparation for installing a package next weekend. I still need to make another 30 top bars. I need to check up on 3 swarms I caught in the past week and move one of the hives from off my shed roof.

[annette]

a queen introduced on Thursday and checked on Sat. may well be un-accepted due to the intrusion. I would wait a minimum 4 days, preferably 7.

I wondered about that.  The cages have a candy plug, so if they have accepted her I guess they will be able to eat out the candy on their own.

[PeeVee]

Between tornadoes I'm gonna try starting some queen cells using this method -


David, where can I get more info on that method?

[PeeVee]

I need to set a couple traps this weekend. Assemble a few frames. maybe plane some lumber for boxes. Weedwhack/mow the bee yard.

How many hours in a day? :-D

[Ollie]

three walk away splits, drink a little mead, cuddle with my honey, maybe watch a B-movie...

[DBoire]

Finish swarm capture boxes.
paint/ oil a newly build TBH. - find something for the top cover. :-P
Mow around hives.

Bee watch :-D

[Irwin]

Get 1.000 ten frame honey supers ready for the truck to take to California.

[David LaFerney]

Get 1.000 ten frame honey supers ready for the truck to take to California.

Holy crap! That sounds like work!

[KD4MOJ]

I still need to make another 30 top bars.

  That's what I'm doing... making some bars for my new KTBH that I'm building....  really weird, tornadoes yesterday and this am, and now it's sunny! Fortunately no touchdowns near here.

...DOUG
KD4MOJ

[David LaFerney]

David, where can I get more info on that method?

I first learned of it here - Durham Beekeepers - queen rearing on a shoe string  Unfortunately their image hosting seems to have disappeared so there are no pictures.  However,  I'm concocting an article on it with pictures that I will post on my website in a few days.

The truth is though, those two pictures just about tell you everything you need to know if you already understand the basics of queen rearing.

[PeeVee]

Thanks David. I'll do some more searching with that info as a start  :lol: