Transporting bees...

Started by snickers104, August 28, 2016, 08:42:35 PM

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snickers104

August 28, 2016, 08:42:35 PM
I talked to a bee keeper who I will buy my bees in the spring....he sells frames full of comb and brood and bees...I don't have a NUC box...how can I transport them in the back of my pickup 4 hours away?

iddee

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August 28, 2016, 09:42:37 PM
In your full size hive. Just be sure the hive has all frames it will hold installed.
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

*Shel Silverstein*

snickers104

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August 28, 2016, 09:44:23 PM
Quote from: iddee on August 28, 2016, 09:42:37 PM
In your full size hive.
They will stay??

iddee

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August 28, 2016, 09:44:56 PM
Screen the entrance.
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

*Shel Silverstein*

snickers104

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August 28, 2016, 09:49:57 PM
Quote from: iddee on August 28, 2016, 09:44:56 PM
Screen the entrance.
Ok...got it.  Thank you!

tjc1

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August 29, 2016, 12:25:40 AM
If you have a screened bottom board, leave the board out and then close the entrance by taping the entrance reducer in place with the small hole blocked off. Also close or screen the small exit hole on the edge of  the inner cover. I would also get one of those ratchet straps and securely strap the whole hive - bottom, deep, inner cover, outer cover - together so they can't slide apart on the trip.
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