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blammer
04-14-2007, 11:13 AM
Ok, for those who have been following my previous posts....


if not the short version is I though I rolled the queen and had to wait.

Well I was going to break into the hive on Sun but my wife has to work and rain is expected later today so I did it at noon on April 14th.

I found her alive and well and with eggs laid! yaahooo!

they have lots of food, maybe too much, so I let the sugar water feed run out as of yesterday and pulled off the feeders. I saw a few coming back with pollen and saw a few cells with pollen in it.

They were very docile! so I added the 10th frame of drawn comb, closed em up and will wait to see....

they did not have enough bees to cover about 4 frames, so I think adding more room is not good now....

any suggestions on how long till I check on them again?

Michael Bush
04-14-2007, 11:27 AM
>any suggestions on how long till I check on them again?

The population can double in three weeks.

blammer
04-14-2007, 12:10 PM
ok, so one and a half weeks would be good to check?

I get the feeling that with this hive, I will pretty much be in it once a week....

a week and a half if I can stand it.... :D

Ruben
04-14-2007, 03:26 PM
Blammer I checked mine once a week for the whole first season, mostly so I could learn but everything did good with me in there once a week so week-week and half will be good.