Wine Barrel Hive
| (Please click on each photo if you wish to see a close-up). This was a swarm that found a home in one of my son's wine barrels (he makes wine barrel furniture). I brought them home from Calif the end of April. Today, approximately one month later, they were cut-out from the barrel and placed in a Langstroth's hive. I was beyond amazed at not only the number of bees in this swarm (basketball size +), but how fast they had started building up their colony.. We were able to cut out and fill 10 foundation-less frames, plus added another deep in order to house the number of bees from the colony. As you can see, they are very gentle California girls....Overall, it took about 4.5 hours to accomplish the job. |
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