Thursday, 20 June 2013
I got confirmation that the new bees will be arriving on Saturday afternoon. Got the hive all ready for their arrival, now I need to research how to install them. They are not coming as a NUC(5 full frames of honey, brood and bees) like the last batch. Those were easy simply pick up the frame and put it in the hive. These little girls are in a small wooden crate with wire mesh and a tin can filled with sugar water. The queen is inside a small cage with a cork in it. I have to remove the sugar water can, take the queen's cage out, replace the cork with a marshmallow and hang her inside the new hive. Then dump the box of probably pretty pissed off bees into the hive, cross my fingers and hope this all goes well!.lol It should be fine people do it all the time. Here is a picture of what it will look like when I pick it up.
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