TomSome bees yesterday on the 'fetched from way up in a tree from the top of a ladder with a long pole' hive landing board.
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Biene🌸 Midsummer in the Beehive: What’s Buzzing and Blooming in Rogaland?
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Yesterday I added boxes the big swarm that was caught and the small swarm that moved into the bait hive that I put in a nuc. I also put Oxalic OAE pads in both of those hives and gave them both a jar of food since it was bare foundation added.
I also saw the really fast skinny snake for more than a few seconds. It's probably a Western yellow-bellied racer. I've seen it by these hives a a few times and down the hill by the shed too. No pic.
AxiomUpdate: I will not be purchasing bees tomorrow as the local ladies have already decided they would like to move in.
That was FAST. The hive has been setup for 2 hours 😱
After daydreaming about it for 2 years, I finally took the plunge and got into beekeeping!
I picked up my boxes and frames today, secondhand from a commercial operation at a very fair price.
I thought it was too late in the season to get bees and figured I'd just collect the equipment and do some more research (and if wild bees wanted to move in, who am I to stop them?), buuuuuuuut they still had nucs available so I go to pickup my bees tomorrow!
The new apiary is getting full. I had to pull the bait hive down that I had just put back up to take 4 frames out of but I only had 9 total so I had to glue up 5 frames then I reset the bait hive and added the 10th to the deep box and closed it up with a jar of food this evening. It's all on bare foundation freshly waxed. I kept two drawn frames in the bait hive to increase the chance of catching another swarm I don't need.
Our school bees are now on Friendica!
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