Bee hives

My hive died last year so time to start over. Doing two hives this year. Here are the packages. I have a good friend in Elizabeth that wanted help learning beekeeping so they let me place hives on their property.

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Here is the queen box and some of her court. There is a cork plug in one end that I removed and replaced with a mini marshmallow. The workers will eat up the marshmallow thereby releasing the queen. While in the box the queen releases pheromones to get the hive to accept her.



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After placing the queen box between frames i dumped the rest into the hive near the queen. You can just see the metal strip that we use to secure the queen box in the lower portion 4 frames from the right.



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After dumping the bee out I put on the top cover. It has an oval hole cut in it that the jars of food sit over. Small nail holes Iin the lid allow feeding. I set the packages in front to allow stragglers to climb in. I will reckeck in three days to assure the queens have been released.





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Please provide updates over time.

+1, this will be interesting.

Lobbed from my electronic ball and chain.

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Originally Posted by buffalobo

+1, this will be interesting.

Lobbed from my electronic ball and chain.

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Agreed!

Fantastic! my wife and I really want to put a few hives on our future property. I am interested in learning a bit ahead of time, so please keep us updated.

Wranglerstar has a couple bee videos up as well.

If you need a place to put another hive I would be interested in learning as well!

I have just found out I have 5 trees
that flower on my property and I am sure the bees would love it.

30 raspberry bushes, 10 blackberry bushes, 3 grape vines, etc

How are you going to keep from losing a hive this winter?

EDIT: I assumed it died during winter, then re read your statement. How did it die?

Also, did you buy a queen, and the new bee's?

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Originally Posted by rbeau30

If you need a place to put another hive I would be interested in learning as well!

I have just found out I have 5 trees
that flower on my property and I am sure the bees would love it.

30 raspberry bushes, 10 blackberry bushes, 3 grape vines, etc

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Send an email to Bev Rampey at threemares@gmail.com indicating your interest to host a hive ir two and learning in the process. I will have my hands full with my two hives.

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Originally Posted by 10mm-man

How are youhuh going to keep from losing a hive this winter?

EDIT: I assumed it died during winter, then re read your statement. How did it die?

Also, did you buy a queen, and the new bee's?

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Not sure if they got disease and died or if they starved. I did a treatment for mites, made sure their honey reserves were good and even put pollen patties and an in the hive feeder just in case. I wrap my hives with 1" insulation on three sides then silver backed bubble wrap for the winter. They will do very well like this but sometimes you do everything right and they still die. When I had them in my yard I never lost a colony in three years.

Packages come with one queen and 5000 or so workers.