Today was a relatively warm day after a few weeks of cold. Temp here in LIbertytown was 50, so I checked to see which hives were still buzzing. This is the score: my yard: 1.Allen’s nuc: died (I think this queen was not very suited for this area, there was […]
I started with 4 real nuc boxes for Q3 and one improvised queen castle (two compartment). All hives had a queen emerge, but today I checked for queens/bees/brood. This is my tally (July 20th, 2014): Nuc with white dots: nice queen, one of the ones that Andrew grafted from George. […]
Lisa was a beautiful big orange queen that arrived in my yard in early spring of 2012 with a good size swarm. Jan was picking gooseberries and saw it go into my dark green topbarhive. I moved the comb into a deep. Hoping for success, I opened the hive 2 […]
