Final Thoughts on Package Bee Season (073)

Honey Bee Obscura Podcast · May 12, 2022 · 16m

So you have already put in your two packages (you did get two, right?) and a few days, or maybe a week later you checked them and…..something's wrong!

What can go wrong with a new package? Kim and Jim chat a bit about the things that can and for some, will go wrong with new packages.

First check, the queen's dead in her cage. Get a new one, find some brood from another colony, join with another colony? All work, but which is best?

After a week you check and…..no bees! They all left! Where did they go and why did they go? Maybe they just moved over to that colony next door that has brood, food…