mikethebee
House Bee
Yers a bit of news to upset the imported queen objectors.
It took 4 beeks three weeks to organize the Australia /UK gov to provide all the official documentation to Export Import 5 queens from Western Australia and to have declared at Customs FIRST TIME EVER this was a test case for future orders.
The young laying queens were taken from the hive on the 17th@8pm arrived home @10pm in the hive by 10/11am following day about 32 hrs.
Now as I said this is a first off experiment to test the queen?s survival in our winter.
I pre set big clonking hives 3 high 6 weeks before departure with plenty of extra grub on.
I had made up 5 screens cog boards.
All I had to do was lift off the top two boxes, with brood honey comb no queen, remove QE Place the top box comb honey on top of bottom brood an queen box ?do you follow? add the new screen cog mesh board replace the top box of brood and insert new beautiful queen, covered top box with worm insulation, Now to sit back and keep fingers crossed.
Now it was so cold the bees just sat on the combs never moved, NO smoke was used it took no time at all when they wake up they will have a lovely sleeping beauty.
Now it just so happened 1 box had been knocked over every thing had been exposed to the elements snow covered the underside of the brood box every thing wet and cold, But amazingly the bees are still alive I replaced on its stand with the live bees.
This left me 1 box short for me new queen so I removed a frame of bees from 7 other brood boxes mixed them into a new brood box and inserted the new queen,
Placed a screen cog board on top of a large queen right colony. I SHOULD GET REPLYS using this method
(Just for your information WA has no known serious diseases or pest it produces the best honey in the world no chemical additives).
all the best mike
www.easybeeproducts.co.uk
It took 4 beeks three weeks to organize the Australia /UK gov to provide all the official documentation to Export Import 5 queens from Western Australia and to have declared at Customs FIRST TIME EVER this was a test case for future orders.
The young laying queens were taken from the hive on the 17th@8pm arrived home @10pm in the hive by 10/11am following day about 32 hrs.
Now as I said this is a first off experiment to test the queen?s survival in our winter.
I pre set big clonking hives 3 high 6 weeks before departure with plenty of extra grub on.
I had made up 5 screens cog boards.
All I had to do was lift off the top two boxes, with brood honey comb no queen, remove QE Place the top box comb honey on top of bottom brood an queen box ?do you follow? add the new screen cog mesh board replace the top box of brood and insert new beautiful queen, covered top box with worm insulation, Now to sit back and keep fingers crossed.
Now it was so cold the bees just sat on the combs never moved, NO smoke was used it took no time at all when they wake up they will have a lovely sleeping beauty.
Now it just so happened 1 box had been knocked over every thing had been exposed to the elements snow covered the underside of the brood box every thing wet and cold, But amazingly the bees are still alive I replaced on its stand with the live bees.
This left me 1 box short for me new queen so I removed a frame of bees from 7 other brood boxes mixed them into a new brood box and inserted the new queen,
Placed a screen cog board on top of a large queen right colony. I SHOULD GET REPLYS using this method
(Just for your information WA has no known serious diseases or pest it produces the best honey in the world no chemical additives).
all the best mike
www.easybeeproducts.co.uk
