I like how you do it Wally. That looks like a professional is working it. Wait...you ARE a professional!!!! What do you think this weather today is doing to your hive????
The weather is keeping them from coming out too fast and stopping up the funnel. I checked them this afternoon and there are 2 1/2 frames of bees in the box. I expect to have a box full about Thursday. Then I will set another box and try to get a second hive started.
If that hive has been there long or even a few months they may of had alot of stores and pollen so it may take a lot of brood to use it up ,, as it takes one cell of honey and one cell of pollen for each bee from egg to emerge.. so you may get a lot of girls .
well when you get all my girls out of ther let me know and Ill come get um ,,
have fun and enjoy
the kid
Looks like Wally will stop at nothing to get another location for his bees. He ran out of room on the ground so now he is putting them up on scaffolding!
I took the second box of bees from the house today and installed the third box. This box had a full ten frames of bees and took two of us to get it down. I estimate the weight at about 80 lb. Had two frames of bees in the new box by the time we were ready to leave.
The guy I work with has bees in the tree again!!! This is about four times he has told me that the bees were there, and then in a few days, no bees. It is a hollow oak tree. Are there any ideas on this? Would they be robbing out an old colony, and if so, would they not be there continuous until done?
I finalized the trap-out yesterday.
3 ten frame boxes and 3 frames in a nuc. 33 frames of bees total. Not a bad take for one house, plus the sizable fee I charged for the job.
Removed the scaffording Tues. and re-set it at an apt. in south Greensboro.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Don't ever think that. I took so long getting that one done that the lady of the house passed away waiting. Don't know if I will be able to collect from the executor or not.
