Coldwater
New Bee
While I'm posting...
I installed a package into a friends Warre hive 2 weeks agoNot hugely impressed with the amount of bees in the package in the and (just over 3lb). I have been feeding them hard and they have drawn out a reasonable amount of comb so far. After installing I noticed quite a few dead bees had been dropped out in front of the hive and so after a week I cleaned them up. Over the next week more dead bees appeared and there are about a hundred on the ground outside the hive as well as about 5 half dead ones at any one time.
Is this normal for a package? They are definitely more dopey and slow than my other hive next door where the bees are single funded foraging machines....
I installed a package into a friends Warre hive 2 weeks agoNot hugely impressed with the amount of bees in the package in the and (just over 3lb). I have been feeding them hard and they have drawn out a reasonable amount of comb so far. After installing I noticed quite a few dead bees had been dropped out in front of the hive and so after a week I cleaned them up. Over the next week more dead bees appeared and there are about a hundred on the ground outside the hive as well as about 5 half dead ones at any one time.
Is this normal for a package? They are definitely more dopey and slow than my other hive next door where the bees are single funded foraging machines....