I got up bright and early this morning, closed off the queen castle, packed up the nucs and castle and took off for the out yard. I got to the yard to find that Kristien had done an excellent job at leveling and making secure the two pallets I had dropped […]
Early on the morning of June 29th, we met at Kristien’s yard to assess the queen cells. First we checked the deep nurse colony: The bee density was not as strong as we had hoped for. A possible solution to this is to gather the bees for the nurse colony […]
In preparation for determining how many queen cells might be viable, I built a queen castle from medium equipment. I put it together using old equipment and excess lumber and coroplast laying around the house. I was lucky enough to find a piece of molding exactly the width I needed […]
