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Jose's Hive: How Not To Keep Bees

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Lone:
Jose swapped me a beehive for a van a few years ago then yearned to keep bees again.  So I split off a nuc for him.  12 months passed and he never touched it except to face an empty double deep to the entrance of the nuc.  I do not have another 5 frame nuc box, so to regain the use of my nuc box I then had to sort out the mess that was Jose's Hive.

The set up:



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First I had to clean the honeycomb and bees from the lid and the top of the frames:



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I did not know what to expect or what I'd find in the empty supers - lovely capped honeycomb with a little pollen.  A few beetles on the pollen but not a problem:



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They were lovely quiet bees.  But were they everywhere! 



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I didn't try to look for the queen and risk losing her.  There was mainly capped brood and very few eggs.  I slipped the 5 frames into the new box quickly, but she could have been anywhere.  But last week when I checked, there were signs of a queen and a thriving hive.



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The moral of this story is , if you give Jose bees, you will end up with pictures that show you how not to keep bees.

Lone

buzzbee:
I'm surprised they chose to store honey in the detached hive bodies.Quite an interesting setup,to say the least. :)

AllenF:
I find that amazing also.  I would never have thought it.   But I guess it worked.

bud1:
that jose kinda like me, dont sweat it if it works

Nico:
Lone if Jose's hive was on the roof in that setup during cyclone Yasi it is unbelieveable.
Nico   

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