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Mustang
Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 768 Location: Sunny Suffolk
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Posted: Fri May 16, 14 9:14 pm Post subject: Yay! First bees!! |
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I got my bees today!!! An overwintered nuc. When it arrived, it turned out to be 12 full brood frames, marked last year's queen, and loads and loads of bees. The beek brought along the whole hive including super. Transferred the brood frames into my new Dartington hive, and shook the bees from the super into it as well.
One issue is that the brood frames are standard Nationals, and a Dartington is 14x12. So, I've put several 14x12 frames at each end of the 12 Stds Nationals. Plan is to move the Nationals out one at a time behind the 14x12s and thererfore gradually swap them out.
I've added 4 new Dartington supers on the top, 2 of which have frames and one of which holds the feeder with syrup to keep them fed whilst they find their feet again.
The bees have been flying around the hive all today, getting their bearings. They seem to have settled in to the Dartington quickly, figuring out the under-hive entrance. The Beek reckons they could fill the supers really quickly, maybe even by next week! So am building some more.
It's the first time I've ever kept bees, and am really excited at being able to do it at last! |
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