Bees!!

[wvbearhunter]

I bought two more "over wintered" nucleas hives. We managed to get them transferred from the cardboard to the actual hives. It was a little chilly but the weather says it was the only warm day for a week or so. I LOVE my bees

 

[Hunter Hoover]

I bought two more "over wintered" nucleas hives. We managed to get them transferred from the cardboard to the actual hives. It was a little chilly but the weather says it was the only warm day for a week or so. I LOVE my bees

View attachment 451198View attachment 451200View attachment 451201Bees certainly are a lot of fun.

 

[Handymike]

Do you have issues with "africanized bees" where you are? Here in SoCal about all we have is the killer bees the past 10 years or so. I had two swarms last year that a local bee keeper came and destroyed for me.
Mike

 

[wvbearhunter]

Do you have issues with "africanized bees" where you are? Here in SoCal about all we have is the killer bees the past 10 years or so. I had two swarms last year that a local bee keeper came and destroyed for me.
Mike

Not that I have ever heard of but we are pretty far north

 

[memtb]

We only had two hives entering winter! Both made it through the worst of winter….one low of -38 F, quite a few -20 to -30's and 4 to 6 weeks straight of lows below zero.

After surviving all of that, we lost one hive…..really bummed.

I gave them both sugar cake (6 to 1 mix) on a warm day when they were making cleansing flights.

Within a week or so …..one hive was dead! I'm concerned that the sugar cake may have done it as there were signs of extreme (IMO) diarrhea!

Really bummed to see them survive a bad winter…..only to die as things were starting to get better! memtb

 

[wvbearhunter]

We only had two hives entering winter! Both made it through the worst of winter….one low of -38 F, quite a few -20 to -30's and 4 to 6 weeks straight of lows below zero.

After surviving all of that, we lost one hive…..really bummed.

I gave them both sugar cake (6 to 1 mix) on a warm day when they were making cleansing flights.

Within a week or so …..one hive was dead! I'm concerned that the sugar cake may have done it as there were signs of extreme (IMO) diarrhea!

Really bummed to see them survive a bad winter…..only to die as things were starting to get better! memtb

It could have been coincidental. We lost a hive two years ago because someone upwind sprayed pesticides on their weeds. We believe in blew down toward the hives and weakened them enough to allow hive moths to take over.

 

[memtb]

There seems to be more ways to lose them …..than to save them! memtb

 

[wvbearhunter]

There seems to be more ways to lose them …..than to save them! memtb

Truth! Worse the people population nationwide is on a steep decline