Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Package Bees
To day I picked up 4 bee packages from a near by beekeeper. A bee package is a small screened box with 3 pounds of worker bees, a caged queen bee, and a tin can of sugar syrup so they can have something to eat on the trip up from the southern states. And is one of the ways to start new hives.
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Very Cool! How much honey will 4 hives produce, do you know?
Blessings,
Addie
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I'll have to wait and see at the end of the main honey flow which starts in july and ends in August in my area. In a good honey flow they could make 140 -160 pounds. Half or so of this is left on for the bees to eat through the long winter.
~David
David,
We are former bee keepers (ours all died), someone else has the majority of the land on the farm where we live and he does not follow bee friendly practices. We used small cell foundation to regress the bees so that they are closer to wild bees and more disease resistant. I miss them! I never shook the bees into the hive though, I would worry about doing it that way, though I know most people do. It's nice that at least some of your hives survived. :-)
Mrs. G
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