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Episode-165- Install Bees To Langstroth and Top Bar Hives Part 2

Tony Teolis April 24, 2013 0 Comments
Here is Part 2 of installing the new packages of honey bees. In this video I show the preliminary steps for putting bees in the top bar hive. This is a first for me but I have been preparing for it since before the hive was built in January. These bees were dusted with powdered sugar in the screened box just like the first package and then dumped into the top bar hive. The Queen cage was placed...

Episode-164- Install Bees To Langstroth and Top Bar Hives Part 1

Tony Teolis April 23, 2013 0 Comments
Today is the day the bees came! Two packages of bees came in the mail and the post office called my home twice while I was at work to come get them. My wife graciously went and picked them up. She's amazing! She was a little freaked out because there were some stragglers outside the two cage contraption the bees came in. They weren't in the screened box but outside it. She tried to explain the...