Beekeeping, Adding the 2nd Hive Box
Newbie with new bees inspecting the hive at day 21 and adding a second deep brood box. Having trouble distinguishing a queen cup cell from a drone cell, and I think I may have mistakenly scraped out some drone cells. If you watch long enough you’ll see me getting stung and crying like a baby. Music by me.
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Good point, thanks!
cleverjoe
July 2, 2012 at 3:53 pm
I think that was only the second time I had been stung until then, lol. I’m a little less jumpy now. I started with a ‘nuc’, purchased from a local beekeeping supplier. The nuc had a queen, two frames of bees (about 10,0000 bees), and two frames of brood and honey. This video was taken three weeks after installing the hive.
cleverjoe
July 2, 2012 at 3:58 pm
sorry butt thay was kinda funny to see a bee keeper jump like that after beeing stung. i looks forward to it where did you get the stuff to start and thanks for the information.
the cheap guy
iwantosavemoney
July 2, 2012 at 4:35 pm
btw better find old queen to make sure its fine coz if its dead u will need keep a biggest queen cell or buy new queen
sirgas321
July 2, 2012 at 4:37 pm
2:10 yes it was a queen cell …
sirgas321
July 2, 2012 at 4:59 pm
@green2lean, the chicken feeders are a good idea. My hives are by a creek so I’m lucky there. Good luck with your hives!
cleverjoe
July 2, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Thanks much for the comments Green. Learning as we go for sure.
It’s just long grass in the feeder on top of the water for a float, there’s also a few styrofoam chips in there. I’m getting a top feeder to replace it which will be more convenient both for me and the bees.
I scraped the stinger, just hope I’m a bit more zen next time in case I’m holding a frame of bees, lol. This was shot about a week ago, hive was installed 4 weeks ago from a purchased nuc. Cheers
cleverjoe
July 2, 2012 at 6:05 pm