If you look closely in this picture you can see the queen with her red dot. This is the Saskatraz queen in the blue Long Hive. I installed the nuc on 5-18-18, released the queen on 5-19-18 and this is 5-23-18 and she is busy at work and they had filled the frame they were working on when I installed them with comb and were covering two more frames than they were just five days before! Go girls! I removed the screen which was covering the entrance because they seemed to be trying to clear out some debris and it was hindering them, so they were using the upper entrances. Later I noticed they were using the entrance normally after I removed the screen. They were bringing in pollen and ever
As of today, I am officially a beekeeper once again! It is so hard to have no bees! Thank you to Jonathan Faust, who sold me frames of bees to which I added a Saskatraz queen from Oliveraz Honey Bees. I installed them this morning in the blue Long Hive at the apiary site on 112th Ave. in Otsego. All our queens arrived safe and sound and hopefully are all safely hived at this point. We will make a second order in about a month and go from there. Everything is blooming and so far the spring looks promising. I had to scythe down the grass and "weeds" (bee food) around the hives so we can get to them. Stay tuned, I hope to populate the other three hives in the coming weeks.
