Are These enough nurse bees to start a Nuc with new queen?

[Some Day]

First time splitting a hive.  I shook all of the frames of bees onto this inclined board and the ones that did not fly back to original hive location dropped into the hive body below the board.








This is a photo of the new hive body at the original hive location collecting the flying bees.

[riverbee]

yes, plenty of bees, great photos!

[Perry]

Smoking hive!

[tedh]

Wow! Truly a thing of beauty!  Great pics too!

[Jen]

Holy Great Gobs of Bees Batman!

[Some Day]

The ladies at the Post Office were real good about calling me 2 minutes after the bees arrived at the post office.

I left the girls Queenless for 20 hours and introduced new queens today.  I didn't like the way the old field bee hive acted toward the queen when I left her on top of the frames for about five minutes.  So, I put a screen around her to help with her introduction.

The nurse bee hive did a happy dance when I introduce the queen, but I forgot to take photos of that.

I will check back in 4 days and see if they are going to tolerate her in the old mean girls hive.

[Perry]

Is there any way that the queen in that extra cage can get moisture? Just a thought.

[Some Day]

Is there any way that the queen in that extra cage can get moisture? Just a thought.

I sprayed the comb, frames,worker bees, queen and her attendants with 1:1 syrup.  Also have a quart jar hive top feeder through the lid with 1:1 syrup.  Ideally there would have been some honey on the frame, but they have not been following the rule book.  I hope they start to feed her through the cage and accept her.

[Wandering Man]

Ideally there would have been some honey on the frame, but they have not been following the rule book.  I hope they start to feed her through the cage and accept her.

Have you taught them to read, yet? 

We bought our bees 50,000 copies of the Bee Rule Book, only to learn the books were in Italian, and our bees were Carnolians.   :\'(

[neillsayers]

Ideally there would have been some honey on the frame, but they have not been following the rule book.  I hope they start to feed her through the cage and accept her.

Have you taught them to read, yet? 

We bought our bees 50,000 copies of the Bee Rule Book, only to learn the books were in Italian, and our bees were Carnolians.   :\'(

 

[Green bee]

Nice hive ..great photos thanks for sharing.