Water meter cutout June 23

[tbonekel]

Well, this was much different than my first cutout. All new beekeepers need to start out with one like this. This colony had probably been there about 1 month. They had 4 frames of brood, not much honey at all and it was a really easy job. It was in the shade and the bees were so pleasant. I apologize for the change in aspect ratio in the video.



Here they are in their new home. They are hungry, so I am going to give them a frame of surplus honey from one of the other glutenous hives.

[riverbee]

very cool tbone!  thanks for the video and pic!

[apisbees]

Nice package nuc size cut out. It seams that once a colony size gets to a certain size any task that has to be preformed in or to a hive becomes more daunting. I call it the holly crap stage in a hives development, It generally hits when the colony reaches the 35,000 to 40,000 bees in a hive stage.

[CpnObvious]

I assume you were able to find the queen??

[tbonekel]

As few bees as there was in this colony, I was not able to find the queen. I may have shaken her in the box early on, but don't know yet. I think I saw eggs in some of the comb i placed in the frames. Fingers crossed.

[kebee]

 Looked like a good catch you got there, hope they build up good for you.

Ken

[blueblood]

Solid work Tbone! Thanks for posting....enjoyed the vid.

[LazyBkpr]

   Hope the queen is there ready to go to work.  Everyone needs a good easy job like that once in a while!

[Jen]

Yay tbone! I knew you would attempt it again, glad this one was easy on ya.

[Barbarian]

Well done. Looks a nice easy catch. Thanks for the video.

How do you manage to change a nuc with bungee straps on a plastic crate to a magnified version without the straps and on cinder blocks ?

Very puzzled viewer.

[tbonekel]

Barbarian, I guess I don't know what you mean. The bungeed nuc in the pic is from the cutout. The hive next to it on cinder blocks is from a previous cutout

[iddee]

Barbarian, you move crate and all to the side, set up your blocks and hive in the original spot. Then move the frames into the 10 frame hive. The bees return to the spot they are used to going to. They don't care if the looks have changed. Also, the house bees will be fanning to tell them this is the new place.

[tbonekel]

Ok, now I know what you mean. What iddee said. I'm hoping to take the two colonies that you see in the pictures to another yard. I now have six hives in my backyard. That's a little more than I am comfortable with in one place.

[Barbarian]

Please ignore my comment.

When I put the cursor over the nuc and clicked to get a magnified view I hadn't spotted that the whole pic had been magnified.  The part with the nuc was off the right-hand margin of the screen that came up.

Sorry for the confusion. I am no good with modern technology.