Hobby Bee Keeper

This is a trailer load of packaged bees, ready to be distributed to local beekeepers form K&K Bee Farm. 
This is a package of bees.  It contains 3 pounds of bees, a queen and a can of sugar water for food.
This is an existing hive the one I thought I had lost the queen from.  Next to it is the wood ware and the 2 packages of bees staged and ready to start.
A closer look at the wood ware and packages.
Done and walking away.  I left some trash, I will pick it up in 3 or 4 days when I remove the queen cages.

This is a queen cage with a queen and 3 or 4 nurse bees.  The white area under the penny is candy.  This is what the worker bees eat and feed to the queen.  When the cage is placed in a hive the workers will eat their way through the candy from the other end releasing the queen into the hive.  This takes several days allowing the bees to acclimate to each other.

My new bees came in today as seen above.  After doing some tilling in the garden and setting out a few more broccoli plants I ran to K&K Bee Store and picked up my 2 packages of bees, a queen and a few supplies.  I didn’t need the queen so I will try to return her or ask them to sell her for me. 

When I checked my hives earlier this year I failed to fine the queen in one hive.  Because I didn’t find the queen and although there was capped brood, I didn’t see any fresh eggs or early stage larva.  And because a mouse had gotten into this hive during the winter I thought she might be dead.  So I ordered a new queen.  Today as I prepared to insert the new queen I discovered a very active and healthy hive with lots of new brood and fresh eggs.  This is good, because it means I will get honey from these girls this year.

 

God is good,