So glad I moved!
Here was the first nuc I installed as it looked about a week ago. It had several frames of honey that were not yet capped. It has been a wet year. The second nuc was covering around nine frames and there were eggs and young larva, so the queen is definitely there. I can hardly believe the difference a few miles makes. These hives are building up like my hives always did in the past. Earlier this week I noticed a honey bee in my yard. I hadn't seen any for a while. Two
Location, location, location
I checked both of my hives on June 8, 2019. This is the white hive, one month after I installed the nuc. This hive is as strong now as any of my hives were all season the past three years. I have been preaching forage, hive density and finding a location that has adequate food for the bees, and I feel this picture explains it all. I am sorry it took three years to figure it out, but only now am I realizing how many hives I was really competing with at my home location and
