BEES AND BEEKEEPINGPresent & Past:Hiving Packages:The Creation oe new coloniesPart 2

摘要

On a brief warm sunny afternoon, I hived five packages of bees (see Figure 1), knowing a cold night was coming. When I had my 50 packages, mentioned in the previous article, I hived them in two big 25-hive apiaries in two days. At the time, none of my neighboring beekeepers had ever done that. So I was on my own.