The Old North State Honey adventure began in December 2010 when we signed up for "Bee School" in Charlotte, NC.
We learned a ton of valuable information, and in in late spring 2011 we purchased 2 new empty hives, all the supplies and tools that go along with it and 2 nucs of honey bees.
This Blog is intended to capture our activities as we embark on our 1st full year of beekeeping and hopefully harvesting some sweet, all natural, local honey!!!
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Purchased Queen Introduced - Nuc / 4th Hive (April 8)
I placed the new queen (she is in her queen cage) in the Nuc this morning. It will take 1-3 days for the worker bees to eat the soft candy away from the entrance and release her. In the meantime her pheromones will become familiar to the hive so the bees will not kill her thinking she is a foreign bee. This will eventually become our 4th hive.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment