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My wife set up two Beehives yesterday
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 76451694:MV80MDQ0NjQ3XzczMjcyNzMxXzNERUQ4QjQ5] [quote:Anonymous Coward 77656173:MV80MDQ0NjQ3XzczMjcyNTg0X0FERjc3MjYz] Join your local county beekeeper's association as a newbie- wanna-be. Most of the good ones have a mentorship program where an experienced beek will mentor you for a year in exchange for you helping with all the labor on their hives. Try to find one with lots of hives who could use an extra hand. Then after you have helped them harvest their spring honey flow and bottle it up, don't ask for honey, ask them if they will split two of their hives in early-mid august and give you a couple of starts so you will have time to get them fed up and grown to a viable overwintering size before cold weather hits. This is why you find a mentor with lots of hives. If someone only has 3-4 hives, they aren't going to give you 2 splits, and you need at least 2 in case one doesn't make it through the winter, which is becoming increasingly common (unfortunately). Note: You will have to regularly feed these starter hives ALL through the fall and winter, because they wont have had time to lay in enough supplies and/or there won't be anything blooming for them to eat on. Some places have a smaller fall blooming period honey flow, but it wont be enough to take them through the winter. And if it gets real cold where you live for a long, long winter, you will need to insulate the hives and give them a candy board inside the top of the feeder, instead of sugar syrup, which they won't be able to get to outside the hive. They can't break cluster to go outside in the cold to try to forage and will starve to death. [/quote] This is good advice. The hives are having problems everywhere and that's why the price is so high. It was apparently an exceptionally bad year this year. Apparently our hive was full of comb and no honey and no bees so they must have needed additional feeding although there was tons of honey before fall. Poor bees, now I feel guilty for not feeding them. :( [/quote]
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The queens this year are somehow bred to be more mite resistant.
When you buy a small colony it is referred to as a nucleus or nuke.
Its always relaxing to get two nukes in the backyard.
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