by Dave Hamilton <davehamilton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 27, 2008 at 09:09 AM
Maybe before the next attempt:
Beginning beekeeping class
Buy a book
Get a mentor
Watch a video
ask a beekeeper
Just my $0.02
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:32:38 -0700 (PDT), robert3t@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>My 3# hive package fell apart when I installed the thing. The sugar
>water dropped out and crushed a bunch of bees. I couldn't figure out
>what to do. Most of the 10,000 bees were on that can of sugar water.
>So, I waited until next weekend adding sugar water daily.
>
>The next Saturday, I fished out the can and shook some of the bees off
>of it. About half had left already. I set the can on the hive top
>cover in hopes they would find their way back. We had a cold snap and
>I'm lost a few thousand bees because they didn't come back in. During
>this procedure, I found the queen cage. It had a metal strip on it
>and the queen was still trapped. I removed the strip and put her back
>in thinking she'd get out by chewing through the candy plug.
>
>On the 3rd weekend, I removed several of the frames covered in honey
>comb and stored sugar water (I think). There were NO brood. So I
>looked for the queen cage and she was STILL in there. The plug was
>untouched. I didn't have anything to pick at the candy plug with so i
>used my hive tool to pull back the screen. MISTAKE. The queen
>immediately FLEW out and UP. She circled in front of me and acted as
>if she might land and then circled behind me and I lost track of her.
>
>Q: What are the chances she will find her way back to the hive?
