https://kelleybees.com/blog/2012/03/care-and-installation-of-package-bees/
Here is a video of my preferred method, number two.
Showing posts with label Package Installation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Package Installation. Show all posts
Friday, March 30, 2012
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Splits and installs
Today I finally saw evidence of a working queen in one of my splits!
The other split was aggressive last week and I couldn't see any signs of a queen cell that looked 'hinged open' from an emerging queen so I put in a frame of eggs from Demeter. I never even thought about it, but it seems that the eggs are drones now that they are capped. They have two capped queen cells on this frame but I'm afraid I will end up with a drag queen. LOL Today I pulled another frame of eggs from Demeter to put in that hive and see if we can get it queen right. It did seem calmer today, so maybe it was a fertilized egg they used to make the queen cells. Also, I remembered to mark the frame with the eggs for ease of checking next week.
One of the packages had released the queen and seems to be doing fine. The other package still had a way to go on releasing the queen so I poked a small hole in the candy to help them along. Hope they find their new home to there liking and stay.
The other split was aggressive last week and I couldn't see any signs of a queen cell that looked 'hinged open' from an emerging queen so I put in a frame of eggs from Demeter. I never even thought about it, but it seems that the eggs are drones now that they are capped. They have two capped queen cells on this frame but I'm afraid I will end up with a drag queen. LOL Today I pulled another frame of eggs from Demeter to put in that hive and see if we can get it queen right. It did seem calmer today, so maybe it was a fertilized egg they used to make the queen cells. Also, I remembered to mark the frame with the eggs for ease of checking next week.
One of the packages had released the queen and seems to be doing fine. The other package still had a way to go on releasing the queen so I poked a small hole in the candy to help them along. Hope they find their new home to there liking and stay.
Monday, April 26, 2010
DHS no shake package installation
Today the DHS bee team got to install bees in the hive they worked so hard to put together. We will go back in on Friday to make sure the queen was released, add more syrup and to remove the bee package and empty deep it was sitting in
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Installing two new packages
To day has been a very long bee day. First my bee buddy John and I did a bee demo for Max's school fund raiser. Then I drove for 2.5 hours round trip to pick up two packages for myself and a package for the DHS bee club.
When I got home from the trip the rain gave me some reprieve so I took my opportunity to install them. Instead of using the shaking method of installing the bees I tried a nicer approach and think it went quite well. I put an empty deep on the bottom board, removed the syrup can and queen cage quickly, recovered the hole and stapled the queen cage to a frame in the middle of the medium that I had ready with frames and stores. Then I took the package put it on the bottom of the deep hole up, removed the cover to the package and put on the medium, inner cover and outer cover. No mad bees flying all around.
I did staple the entrance closed for the night and covered the inner cover escape to give them the night to settle in.
Fingers crossed.
When I got home from the trip the rain gave me some reprieve so I took my opportunity to install them. Instead of using the shaking method of installing the bees I tried a nicer approach and think it went quite well. I put an empty deep on the bottom board, removed the syrup can and queen cage quickly, recovered the hole and stapled the queen cage to a frame in the middle of the medium that I had ready with frames and stores. Then I took the package put it on the bottom of the deep hole up, removed the cover to the package and put on the medium, inner cover and outer cover. No mad bees flying all around.
I did staple the entrance closed for the night and covered the inner cover escape to give them the night to settle in.
Fingers crossed.
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