BEES AND BEEKEEPINGPresent & PastRive Package-Bee Colonies: Arrival and sett UpRartt 1

摘要

For my thermal photography work, I had mostly concentrated on top-bar hives. Now I wanted to extend this new way of seeing to frame hives. For this work, I used five packages. I faced most all the current difficulties with packages, beginning with theexpense, $729 including shipping. Three new colonies had queen problems, resulting in big setbacks. The erratic spring weather dealt cruel cards too, in terms of cold days when new colonies needed to grow. Yet from my long-time veteran experience with package colonies, I built them into strong colonies occupying a brood chamber (deep super) and two or three medium supers (eight frame hives).