Hey everyone, like the title says my wife and I are new to Bee Keeping. We are located in central Pa close to the fork in the Susquehanna River. We just got our bee last week and installed in our new hive. We are very excited taking on this new endeavor, also my 15 month old son loves to watch them come in and out of the hive. We did have a small problem when we went to install the package. I noticed the screen on cage was lifted when i pulled it out. There was only one staple in the screen. Luckily the queen was still in there, but the attendees were gone. I called company followed instructions and installed queen cage as per there instructions, now monitoring the progress. Queen has been released from cage but i am unable to find her. The weather hasn't been cooperating, temp here mid 50's and cloudy with drizzle. Each time i check on her all bees are huddled on frames #4,5,6 very thick and just cant seam to find her. Thoughts? They are coming up to feed on top feeder with sugar water and Honey-B-Healthy. They have started drawing out the comb also, which is really neat.
Maybe someone can throw some input in but we are starting on new med supers with wire foundation no hooks. I have noticed the foundation got pushed out of grove on top because of the queen cage and weight of bees. Tried to reinstall but just seams to keep falling out at top.
We have put a lot of time and thought in the start up and location of hive. We settled on a location close to a hedge row and also located close to our vegetable garden. You can see in the picture the hedge row and the flower garden we put around it. we will be adding more to the flower garden and a couple hedges to block the ugly side of hedge row. Any feed back would be greatly appreciated.
Maybe someone can throw some input in but we are starting on new med supers with wire foundation no hooks. I have noticed the foundation got pushed out of grove on top because of the queen cage and weight of bees. Tried to reinstall but just seams to keep falling out at top.
We have put a lot of time and thought in the start up and location of hive. We settled on a location close to a hedge row and also located close to our vegetable garden. You can see in the picture the hedge row and the flower garden we put around it. we will be adding more to the flower garden and a couple hedges to block the ugly side of hedge row. Any feed back would be greatly appreciated.
