Today was warm enough to do a quick check of the hives. Three colonies have bit the Dust. One box (Nuc#4) did not have a single...
by Adam Ziegler in Three Down...
I wanted to transfer the cutout from the bee-vac to a nuc hive while performing an inspection. The bees had attached the comb to...
by Adam Ziegler in Queen Cells on Cutout
I was contacted this afternoon to capture a swarm West of Geneseo Illinois. The swarm came from a cavity in a mature maple tree,...
by Adam Ziegler in Swarm Capture and Beekeeper Relocation
Placing my ear on the nuc, I could heard the tooting of 2 or more queens in the hive. Mimicking the tones with my voice would cause...
by Adam Ziegler in Queen Tooting from Dixon Nuc 2
2013-05-17, 8:33 am | Tags: nuc-hives
I inspected both nucs. Nuc #1 had only one elongated cells. This nuc only had one queen cell when I first purchased the colonies...
by Adam Ziegler in Dixon Nucs with Queen Cells
2013-05-11, 8:51 pm | Tags: nuc-hives
Took a trip to Dixon Illinois to pickup two queen less nucs. There was a completed queen cell in one hive and a couple started cells...
by Adam Ziegler in Two new nucs
2013-05-03, 9:15 pm | Tags: nuc-hives