🍯 Moving Bees, Selling Honey, & Swarms

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We headed over to Summerfield to drop off Rachel's bees. Met her husband Richard nice guy, but not sure how into bees he is. That's okay, she has enough enthusiasm for both of them. After some minor fiddling with the cement, block hive stand they were officially placed in their new home. She should be in good shape and has already mixed some syrup to feed them. B should go over there and walk her through her first inspection, but I'm not sure how involved she wants to get with other people's bees, (OPB).

Later that afternoon we headed over to Sheetz in Union Cross to drop off a couple of pounds of honey to Ashley. She reached out to us via Gee's Bees | Facebook, we didn't know her so I tagged along for the drop. Turns out she was looking for some local honey and someone recommended us via a FB Mom's Group. Word of mouth is spreading... I guess this is pretty neat.

Busy day... We also made a date with Dan to pick up some equipment from him and Josh. We say its a date because he lives up in King and we are going up there to have dinner at the original Dairi-O. Should be a good time with good eats

We were pulling into the driveway and Sharon met us. There was a small swarm that landed on the back of Hive 15. The only thing we can think of was there was a virgin swarm cast from Hive 25 (We left 2 queen cells in there). We didn't see/find any sort of queen but got them housed in a 5F Nuc on Hive 23 position. It was officially empty for 6 hours. We checked Hive 21 for swarming evidence, she was in there with what looked like 1 supersedure cell, and gave Hive 25 some foundation to chew on:

Hive 11: N/A

Hive 13: 10F (Her Equipment) went to Rachel's house, Replaced with a small swarm. Check for a queen this weekend.

Hive 15: N/A

Hive 21: Saw queen, did not swarm. Tore down what appeared to be a supersedure cell.

Hive 23: N/A

Hive 25: Still has a ton of bees hanging out the front. Placed an 8F box of foundation above a queen excluder on top to try and get them to draw out and give them room.

Location: Colfax, NC, USA

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