What is a Honey Bee Swarm?
A “cloud of bees forming a swarm is a spectacular sight.” What happens in a honey bee swarm? When a colony grows to a certain size, new queens are reared in special large peanut-shaped queen cells and fed “royal jelly” (an enriched diet of brood food). Shortly before a new queen emerges, the old queen […]
What are the advantages and disadvantages of purchasing a nuc? Part 1
This important discussion is very important to the beginning beekeeper! This will be our subject all this week. Each day we will discuss an important element of a nuc. This will be a five part blog. We must start with what is a nuc? A nuc or nucleus is a 5 frame box of bees. The […]