I got my Bees!

[Cncguy]

So I decided to start a new hobby in addition to my car hobby. It's Bees. I haven't learned everything about bees yet but so far things are going very smoothly, haven't even been stung yet. If any member has a useful tip please let me know.

Here are my bees when I brought them home. Had to leave them in box for half a day until they got used to their surroundings.



This pic is after I transplanted then into their new hive.

[b5blue]

Are they SuperBees? 

[Cncguy]

We'll see if they produce before I call them that.

[b5blue]

  Last year I got my Grandson Rexie Ladybugs. (1500 of them) We had so much fun releasing them in his backyard I got another bag of them for his class to release and study. The teacher made a Ladybug habitat for some. Next I got him 2 Praying Mantis egg casings, 100's of tiny Mantis hatched before I could get over there so we had to rush that release.
  Have you lots of flowering plants for them?  I've bought a bag of wildflower assortment to seed around my home this year.

[70 sublime]

Is that one of those specially built bee boxes that has a crank you put in and turn it and it makes the preformed honey comb shift to a zig zag pattern and lets the honey drip out the bottom ?

[Mytur Binsdirti]

[crj1968]

My friend at work has a couple hives.

Strange creatures those things. The drones get to mate and die or be kicked out of the hive by the workers and starve.

The weirdest thing is if the queen dies they can make a new queen by giving chosen larvae thine royal jelly. (only fit for a queen of course)

Good luck- my buddies advice is don't open up and bother them too much.
He did that with his first hive and they must have got tired of him poking around and they all just took off one day...never to return.

[Cncguy]

Is that one of those specially built bee boxes that has a crank you put in and turn it and it makes the preformed honey comb shift to a zig zag pattern and lets the honey drip out the bottom ?

That's the one.

[Cncguy]

Lol

[Cncguy]

  Last year I got my Grandson Rexie Ladybugs. (1500 of them) We had so much fun releasing them in his backyard I got another bag of them for his class to release and study. The teacher made a Ladybug habitat for some. Next I got him 2 Praying Mantis egg casings, 100's of tiny Mantis hatched before I could get over there so we had to rush that release.
  Have you lots of flowering plants for them?  I've bought a bag of wildflower assortment to seed around my home this year.

I've got plenty of flowers a vegetable garden, and two apple trees plus the farms in the area. Didn't think about Lady bugs. What do they do?

[b5blue]

Eat pest insects!

[DeltaV]

So I decided to start a new hobby in addition to my car hobby. It's Bees. I haven't learned everything about bees yet but so far things are going very smoothly, haven't even been stung yet. If any member has a useful tip please let me know.

Here are my bees when I brought them home. Had to leave them in box for half a day until they got used to their surroundings.



This pic is after I transplanted then into their new hive.

How many bees do you get with the queen? From where did you buy them?

Thanks

[70 sublime]

It is kind of neat how this works

I saw this a while ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbMV9qYIXqM

[472 R/T SE]

Good for you.  I'll have to keep track of this thread.


We should all be trying to help the bee out.  From what I've read their #'s are rapidly dropping.  Of course climate change is to blame.

[polywideblock]

another aussie innovation make life easier for the world   

[Cncguy]

So I decided to start a new hobby in addition to my car hobby. It's Bees. I haven't learned everything about bees yet but so far things are going very smoothly, haven't even been stung yet. If any member has a useful tip please let me know.

Here are my bees when I brought them home. Had to leave them in box for half a day until they got used to their surroundings.



This pic is after I transplanted then into their new hive.

How many bees do you get with the queen? From where did you buy them?

Thanks

I bought what's called a Nuc it includes an egg laying Queen, The Drones, The Workers , and five frames of comb. Probably some where in neighborhood of 2000 bees. I purchased from Big Beech Apiary here in Indiana.

[Dino]

Good for you! I bought a little bee house for the ones residing in and around our garden. You are raising the bar though.   

Have you ever been stung by a bee or yellowjacket or something Or actually more than once? Wouldn't want you to find out the hard way that you get a systemic anaphalactic reaction. Some people find out that they need to carry an epi pen when around the little critters. Bees don't usually sting without provocation but that's not always a given.

[hemi71x]

Bees, natures necessary creatures.
But this is the only one that i prefer to be around.   

[holanae]

 Very interesting little insects.  Wife has one hive, but plans to get five more.  I get ag exemption on my taxes with six hives in Texas.  Being its a new hive in a new location, monitor their daily habits outside the hive.  Will help you spot them doing something out of the norm.  Something out of norm means something wrong.  Monitor their progress, make sure they are building wax, honey, and the queen is laying eggs.  Monitor for mites, and beetles.  When the nuc box get full transfer to a brew box.  Dont let it get to full.  They will build another queen and can swarm.   Not good.  I can go on and on.

[Cncguy]

The only time I've been stung is when a raccoon knocked over the hive. I had to put the hive back upright and use a ratchet strap to hold it down. The Raccoon is no longer living. Recently I added a second brood box to give the bees more room.