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I'm a landscape contractor and wanna-bee gardener, so I'm really excited about the various flowering plants and nectar/pollen sources! In case anyone's interested, I had a couple observations: 1. My three 'Emily Brunner' hollies bloomed from ~April 1-15. It was really cool to see all the bees loving...

My bees have been crazy-active since I found the queens last Wed! Constant, purposeful flights in and out all day. I'd say every 4th or 5th bee comes back with full pollen baskets. My plan was to open things up this coming weekend (10 days after seeing queens released) to check for eggs, larvae, and...

YEAH! I opened up both hives on Wed evening and found both queens released. I'm using 10-frame medium supers, and there were ~ 5 frames in each hive that had drawn comb. Most of the cells seemed to be filled with clear liquid (guessing sugar water/nectar), while some were darker in color. I didn't n...

Yes, I sure did. I removed the empty packages, set them out beside the hive (for another 24 hrs), and put the missing frames back in the bottom super. My biggest challenge was trying to figure out how to do everything without squashing bees! Even putting the frames in and moving them around seemed l...

Great - thank you both! It's really hard to be patient when you can't see what's going on inside that box... One other amateur lesson learned: I'm using an all-medium set-up, and discovered the white plastic package does not fit inside a medium super!!! I did start to panic for a second, but remembe...

Hi everyone - I am brand new to beekeeping and to this forum! I have two urban Greensboro hives located on a second-floor flat roof deck near UNCG, and just picked up my packages from Beez Needz this past Saturday morning. As far as I can tell, everything went well and all are happy. Only got stung ...