Back in bees?

[SEMNII]

We have always wanted bees at our place but not really into doing the maintenence etc... I was contacted by a local honey company and they asked back in January if they coudl bring bee boxes out in the spring. Around May10th, they showed up from Texas on a semi. They winted the bees down there and bring them up to MN in the spring. he said he has about 2800 hives between New Ulm, over to Rochester and up to St Cloud. The semi has a specialized forklift on the bwck that they use to offload. There's 4 hives per pallet and we have 4 pallets. They have been fun to watch. We do sunflowers every year and this year we went to a full acre of sunflowers right by the bees, in addition to a n acre ro so of clover. Its crazy how the # of bees has grown. Fun to watch them in the clover.

 

[JNRBRONC]

I have a hive the neighbor gave me a couple years ago but haven't set it up yet and wanting to get into bee keeping for a few years. Not sure where to start but I'd like to get it set up soon. The neighbor is 94, her deceased husband bought it 40 years ago from TSC. She has had honeybees in the walls of her house for quite a few years and had someone come a few years ago to remove them but they came back the following year. Whoever removed them never sealed up the outside wall! They found a huge amount of combs/honey in her walls and eve in the ceiling above her bed!

There have been two swarms that split from that colony the past 4 years, one tried to start a hive under our sunroom, fortunately I caught them in the act and plugged up the hole and they left. Here's one swarm in her yard.

Guess I need to learn really quick how to attract them to my hive.

That's an easy swarm to hive if you can cut the branch. Carry to the hive and shake the bees into it.

 

[JNRBRONC]

Got lots of white clover in the farm yard and multiple livestock waterers for bees to drink from. Lots of brushy stuff in bloom around as well.


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