All the buzz fit to sting

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I will be along during the week as have just housed my new wild colony in their hive...

Need to leave them alone and have patience...

Hugs

Rod

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Patience is the big word.. 

They are busy as buggery right now as tons of pollen to gather in the forest at the back of our garden.

Honey will be for next year.

I love watching them come and go to their hive... Working their little bee bums off to keep missus happy...

Bee back next week once I have an update 

Hugs

Rod

I'm old with a bum heart, on SS Disability. I got patience... as a matter fact, all I have left is patience and leverage.  

From what I have heard watching YouTube and talking to some locals, if I start a hive in the spring, I might... might... see honey that fall. Second fall would be expected. So I'm prepared for that. Pollination assistance would start the first year, though.

Looking forward to your contribution!

TheRedneck

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What I've noticed from the one family I knew that kept bees that they did not seem to know how to protect them from harsh weather, particularly cold/freezing weather and they, sadly, all died. My heart broke.

I recently watched the movie 'The Theory of Everything' and learned that Stephen Hawing and his first wife kept bees in their basement and I thought, 'that's how to protect them'. That Stephen must have researched the theory of everything bee.

Did you know, Redneck, that many other insects are pollinators, such as humming birds, flies, butterflies and beetles, to name most of them.

I wish you the best of luck with your attempt at beekeeping but why not house them in a basement or build an underground bunker for them?

The problem with a basement/bunker is, here that requires jackhammers and dynamite. A few feet below my feet lies solid bedrock. It makes all my buildings very strong and secure, but digging down is something to be avoided at all cost. My garden is as far from the mountain as I can get it, so I have a few feet of soil there, enough to grow the veggies good, but where I want these hives at the barn? Maybe two feet. Maybe.

TheRedneck

Hi Redneck, I also read that you should not harvest their honey, or a large portion of their honey, the first year as they need it for overwintering, but that is just what I read and it makes sense to me. You might want to research that fact more.

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