Sorry to hear your colony didn’t make it but that’s just bee keeping Im a commercial bee keeper here in California and usually 20 percent of the bees die over the winter sucks but it can be better if you treat your bees a lot id look in to a oxalic acid vaporizer works really well had some bees on my experimental yard this year and treated them all with oxalic acid vapor had a 97% survival rate. Glad to see you didn’t give up on bee keeping keep it up!!
Great video. You might consider feeding them 1:1 sugar water for a bit to help them along until they really get rolling. I just put my nucs out a couple days ago, on Thursday.
Sorry to hear your colony didn’t make it but that’s just bee keeping Im a commercial bee keeper here in California and usually 20 percent of the bees die over the winter sucks but it can be better if you treat your bees a lot id look in to a oxalic acid vaporizer works really well had some bees on my experimental yard this year and treated them all with oxalic acid vapor had a 97% survival rate. Glad to see you didn’t give up on bee keeping keep it up!!
Great video. You might consider feeding them 1:1 sugar water for a bit to help them along until they really get rolling. I just put my nucs out a couple days ago, on Thursday.
Thanks for the tip!
Nice! Like you i started last year and lost the hive to mites they actually absconded do to low bee count. Getting a nuc Tuesday 🎉
Hey sorry to hear that you lost your hive, good luck with your nuc!