We have happy buzzing bees!🐝🐝

The NUC installs went extremely smooth! In the video below the sound you hear is what happy bees sound like.

I am so relieved we didn’t have any Mariah caBEE moments this afternoon!! We were able to spot BEEonce the Queen bee in the right hive. She was about 2.5 times the size of all of the other bees. We didn’t spot It’s Britany BEEch but we know she is there since the bees are working. There is no standard NUC bee count size but everything on the internet estimates there are approx 9k-10.4k bees in a NUC. In roughly one month time they should each increase to over 18k bees. That’s a lot of bees friends!

The bees started building comb in the open spaces of the NUCS. How cool is that?🐝

Have a safe and happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Tiffany

***5:20pm update*** They are slowly still filtering into their hives and happy.

***8:15pm update***

Goodnight Bees!!🐝

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NUC’s are here and it was dramatic!

This bee experience has been full of weird drama. The NUC’s came in cardboard closed boxes. The key word here is closed…

When I got home and opened the back of my car one NUC top was propped slightly open. (Only in my life right?!?) There were a good amount of bees outside having a party. The crazy thing is only two bees joined me upfront on my ride home. These bees are a family, they stick together.

I decided the safest bet was to suit up to bring them to the bee-yard. It is important that you know where the front and the back of the NUC is. This helps the bees orientate to their new surroundings. The boxes are closed now (Phewf!!) but tomorrow the frames will be installed in the same direction and same order. Here is a video of them buzzing inside the NUC’s and the bee-yard in the dark. 🐝

https://videos.files.wordpress.com/ulkcXKYt/img_7940.mov

Stay tuned for the update tomorrow afternoon!!

We hope you had a less dramatic evening!,

Tiffany

Will the real BEEonce & It’s Britany BEEch please stand up!🐝🐝

Another exiting day! We pick up two NUC’s. These are established mini hives. Since our old queens absconded we will call them Fleeonce and It’s not Britany BEEch. Bring on the real queens!

Wonder what a Nuc is? It is short for nucleus colony. Check out Wikipedia! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuc-Tiffany