Now there are two!!!
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
Back in the Saddle Again
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
