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| Bee in the Barn |
A 3-pound package contains about 12,000 bees. So all total, I had about 48,000 bees in my car - more or less. I did take a sheet and cover them - nothing worse than riding down the road and having a bee buzzing around your head. The bees come in a box with four wooden sides and screened material in the front and back. It is 8.5″ high, 16″ wide and 5.5″ deep. An inverted can filled with sugar syrup is placed inside the box to provide feed for the bees during transit. The package contains a young marked queen (green for 2019) that had started laying prior to being caged. The queen is kept in a small wooden cage/box with several worker bees.
It had rained off and on all day so it was between downpours that we installed the packages. I am feeding the bees on top of the hive body inside the top two boxes and I have entrance reducers in the front of the hives. I have closed all the other holes so hopefully "robber bees" will not be able to take over the hives.
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| Beehives - April, 2019 |
I talked to Mr. Ellis and he had installed one hive this morning (Saturday) and hopes to do the other later between showers. It has rained off and on (mostly on) again today and they're calling for more tomorrow. But the bees are out and about getting adjusted to their new home.
