Monday, April 27, 2020

new hive

After the sudden decline and death of both hives 2 years ago, we harvested honey and took a break.

Now we're back. We drove down to Centralia to pick up a Nuc from Woods Bee co. We'd cleaned up the old hive equipment and sterilized it in our new freezer. It was wierd being out after so many weeks inside.

Back home, we opened the Nuc and saw orientation flights by mid-morning. In the evening once it cooled and they're settled down, we switched frames into to the deep, with two 1:1 sugars on top. I saw the queen in transferring the frames.

Nuc before transfer