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Jose's Hive: How Not To Keep Bees
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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