My queens shipped overnight, will arrive tomorrow. It's rainy tomorrow, wednesday is better, thursday and friday better still. Warmer, upper 70s light wind. Sunny thursday and partly cloudy Friday but the high near 80. Any reason I can't wait till thursday or friday to install them, and what do I need to do if I decide to wait. I've studied how to bank queens and even have a nuc sat aside for that purpose. But I don't know if that is required for this short a period of time. Thursday is perfect, except my son is off Friday and would be there to help me.
Thou I think I'm going to go thursday with the sunny day and see if he can help me. I've got 5 queens, for 3 splits and a hive that swarmed and the queen didn't come back from the mating flight and a queen missing from a nuc. I've introduced queens before, but never had to wait to install them.
Thanks in advance for the advice.
Thou I think I'm going to go thursday with the sunny day and see if he can help me. I've got 5 queens, for 3 splits and a hive that swarmed and the queen didn't come back from the mating flight and a queen missing from a nuc. I've introduced queens before, but never had to wait to install them.
Thanks in advance for the advice.