Yesterday was the first official day of my great bee adventure. The bees came and are now happily in their new home. We picked up 3 nucs (boxes of bees) but only one will be staying( the one onthe stand), the other two are off to Lehi to live.
As I opened the entrance the bees came pouring out. It was very cool and we had a bee fest for a few hours, after that they started getting busy and visiting the flowers.
This morning they were watered (you can see the water bowl in the picture) and fed some sugar syrup and so they should be buzzing about exploring their new area and making me some honey!!
The only thing to do now is keep feeding them and wait.... I hate to wait. Next Saturday May 7th I can put them in their real hive and look at them, until then I will just have to wait patiently, or at least wait.
\Very cool Jeff, I was a comercial beekeeper for years...3 surgeries later and a tore down back I gave it up. I had 1500 hives and worked the orange blossom down in south florida.
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