May 9
Checking on the Norwood Community Garden (NCG) bees tonight quickly before it rains. They seem content. I can see many arriving on the landing board with their pollen sacs full - always a good sign. When pollen is coming in to the hive, it means there are bee larvae to be fed. I added a deep box on top and placed a gallon feeder filled with 50/50 sugar mix as an added help to get them established here.
Done, just in time as here come the rains.
Friday, May 10, 2013
The Nucs Are Here!
After several delays in the delivery of the bees, my nucs are here for pickup. I have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of these bees so I can re-establish my two hives that are at the Marion house, and establish the new hive that I have placed in the Norwood Community Garden.
How does one go about getting bees for a hive, and just what is a "nuc"?
You can get bees in a number of ways:
1) If you are lucky, or smart, or particularly crafty, you can catch a swarm, or track feral bees to their hive location and catch them in the wild. You capture the queen and thousands of workers. Not something that most newbies will do.
2) You can buy a "package". Typically this is a 3 pound package of bees along with (usually) a virgin queen in a separate cage. You install the bees by literally pouring them into the open hive. You suspend the queen in her cage between some frames and allow the bees to get used to her pheromones (she is new to them, they are not her offsprings). There is a candy plug in the end of the cage, and over the course of manys days, the candy is eaten away, freeing the queen. By then, the bees are used to her pheromones and (most usually) accepts her into the hive. About 3 weeks from that point you should start to see new baby bees.
3) You buy a nuc ... or nucleus. This is in essence a mini somewhat established working hive. It has 5 frames, usually with mostly fully drawn out comb. There is a mated queen, laying eggs. There is packed pollen, larvae, and perhaps some honey. You put the 5 frames into your 10 frame hive in exactly the same order as they were in the nuc. There are several thousand (10?) worker bees. The hive is immediately off and working. No delays.
So I bought 3 nucs at $110 each, and put one in the Norwood Community Garden bee hive, and two down at the Marion hives.
The nucs don't take long to install. More time is usually spent getting the suit on, smoker lit, and pieces all together.
At the NCG hive, I had several spectators watching and taking pictures. I handed Vic Babel a hat and veil to put on. He had a long sleeve sweatshirt on already. I told him that he could get quite close as I installed the frames from the nuc, and as long as he didn't wave his hands about in panic, the bees should not bother him. I think he was a bit to a lot nervous at first, particularly when several hundred bees came out at once and began flying about - mostly at me. Vic did great. Several landed on him, many were buzzing about the veil, and he stood calmly in one spot watching. He had a great introduction to the bees. That install went well, as did the two down in Marion that I did by myself.
How does one go about getting bees for a hive, and just what is a "nuc"?
You can get bees in a number of ways:
1) If you are lucky, or smart, or particularly crafty, you can catch a swarm, or track feral bees to their hive location and catch them in the wild. You capture the queen and thousands of workers. Not something that most newbies will do.
2) You can buy a "package". Typically this is a 3 pound package of bees along with (usually) a virgin queen in a separate cage. You install the bees by literally pouring them into the open hive. You suspend the queen in her cage between some frames and allow the bees to get used to her pheromones (she is new to them, they are not her offsprings). There is a candy plug in the end of the cage, and over the course of manys days, the candy is eaten away, freeing the queen. By then, the bees are used to her pheromones and (most usually) accepts her into the hive. About 3 weeks from that point you should start to see new baby bees.
3) You buy a nuc ... or nucleus. This is in essence a mini somewhat established working hive. It has 5 frames, usually with mostly fully drawn out comb. There is a mated queen, laying eggs. There is packed pollen, larvae, and perhaps some honey. You put the 5 frames into your 10 frame hive in exactly the same order as they were in the nuc. There are several thousand (10?) worker bees. The hive is immediately off and working. No delays.
So I bought 3 nucs at $110 each, and put one in the Norwood Community Garden bee hive, and two down at the Marion hives.
The nucs don't take long to install. More time is usually spent getting the suit on, smoker lit, and pieces all together.
At the NCG hive, I had several spectators watching and taking pictures. I handed Vic Babel a hat and veil to put on. He had a long sleeve sweatshirt on already. I told him that he could get quite close as I installed the frames from the nuc, and as long as he didn't wave his hands about in panic, the bees should not bother him. I think he was a bit to a lot nervous at first, particularly when several hundred bees came out at once and began flying about - mostly at me. Vic did great. Several landed on him, many were buzzing about the veil, and he stood calmly in one spot watching. He had a great introduction to the bees. That install went well, as did the two down in Marion that I did by myself.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Year 2013
OK, it's another year, and yet another promise to blog more. Unlike 2012, this year we'll not be selling 1 house, buying and moving into 2 others, celebrating the wedding of 2 of our children, and closing a storage unit that eyes had not set on in 10 or more years. My bees (and my golf) will be a priority this year.
The year 2013 will be different for many reasons. First, I have 3 hives this year, one more than last year. One is in a community garden in our new home town of Norwood. The other two hives are down at our Marion vacation/retirement home. I can't wait to compare and contrast the taste of the honeys from these two different locations. Putting it in wine terms, the terroir should result in a different taste. Second, one of my "followers" over the years is moving from England to this country. Her father is and has been a close friend and colleague. He is now moving over as manager of our group. It is a great honor to work for him, and the teamwork that will result from this change will be phenomenal. Yet, one of the biggest bonus benefits of this change at work is that he'll be moving here with his family, and I will finally meet his two youngest daughters. For several years now, Charlie has followed with interest my bees, and I periodically would send her some of my bees' honey. I really look forward to meeting Charlie and Katie. I can easily foresee Charlie as the next little beekeeper and bee savior. This is one 9 year old that I can't wait to see don a petite beesuit and veil and stand next to me observing the bees in their daily activities. From what I know of her, it won't "bee" long before she'll want to have her hands (with gloves) in the hives, handling frames, and observing bees up close and personal. If she'll have me, I'd love to mentor her.
My community garden hive is yet another opportunity to share my bees with others and educate during the process of beekeeping there. This year there are 64 plots in the garden, and therefore many opportunities for those gardeners and friends to see the bees and learn a bit about them as the bees and I interact. I have a garden plot there this year. We should see better pollination and better vegetable production with the bees so close by. I hope to not only educate the gardeners but also their families and friends as they come to the garden.
In 2013 I am also invited back to the Farmer's Market in Norwood center to do another bee introduction to the young children. Last year I jumped at the opportunity to help educate a group of children ages 4-10 on how to identify honeybees from wasps (yellow jacket and hornets), describe what they do, and taste some of the fruits of their labor. I am not sure who had more fun last year, them or me. We'll do it again this year, and hopefully we‘ll see another group of children walk away and begin to think more deeply about bees and their role in the world in which we all live.
Yes, 2013 should be a great year!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
2012
I have a new bee resolution for the coming year, and that is to blog more.
I am thrilled to say that both of my hives have survived through the "winter" months. The unusually warm temperatures here in March have seen the bees out for many of the days bringing in pollen - just look at those colored and full pollen sacs in the picture below.
Although last night dipped into the 20's as will tonight, I don't think it'll have a negative effect on the hives as I have not disturbed them at all to this point by thinking of rotating the deep supers.
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We have the house up for sale and looking to move to another town closer to where my grandson, Colin, will be going to a private high school next year. Needless to say, one of the important criteria we are trying to prioritize high on the list of "wants" for the new place is that the yard must be suitable for the bees. I will obviously learn what it means to pack up the bees and move them, and I hope to blog it in detail.
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I hope it'll be (bee?) a good year for all bees.
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I am thrilled to say that both of my hives have survived through the "winter" months. The unusually warm temperatures here in March have seen the bees out for many of the days bringing in pollen - just look at those colored and full pollen sacs in the picture below.
Although last night dipped into the 20's as will tonight, I don't think it'll have a negative effect on the hives as I have not disturbed them at all to this point by thinking of rotating the deep supers.
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We have the house up for sale and looking to move to another town closer to where my grandson, Colin, will be going to a private high school next year. Needless to say, one of the important criteria we are trying to prioritize high on the list of "wants" for the new place is that the yard must be suitable for the bees. I will obviously learn what it means to pack up the bees and move them, and I hope to blog it in detail.
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I hope it'll be (bee?) a good year for all bees.
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
MAQS
MAQS?
Mite Away Quick Strips.
I've been too busy to do mite checks, and when I did, I found I had a pretty good infestation. Fortunately MA has approved the use of MAQS this year, and even more fortunately, as late as Sat Sept 17th, I was able to find some of these MAQS at Behavin' Apiary in RI. Everett is always such a good source of info, comradery , and supplies! I put the 2 strips per hive on Wed night Sep 21 ... Bees weren't happy I was there and I got stung twice! Once through the leather gloves, and once when one crawled up under the bee suit pants legs, under my pants, and up on my calf. By the time I was able to get to that sting it was 15 min later and lots of the poison had been pumped into me. It was sore 24 hours later, but, very functional, and no swelling.
I do hope this works. The hive seems to be back to normal activity levels, so I will wait the specified 7-10 days at 50-92 F to see how we did. I'd like to see these bees survive the winter!
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Mite Away Quick Strips.
I've been too busy to do mite checks, and when I did, I found I had a pretty good infestation. Fortunately MA has approved the use of MAQS this year, and even more fortunately, as late as Sat Sept 17th, I was able to find some of these MAQS at Behavin' Apiary in RI. Everett is always such a good source of info, comradery , and supplies! I put the 2 strips per hive on Wed night Sep 21 ... Bees weren't happy I was there and I got stung twice! Once through the leather gloves, and once when one crawled up under the bee suit pants legs, under my pants, and up on my calf. By the time I was able to get to that sting it was 15 min later and lots of the poison had been pumped into me. It was sore 24 hours later, but, very functional, and no swelling.
I do hope this works. The hive seems to be back to normal activity levels, so I will wait the specified 7-10 days at 50-92 F to see how we did. I'd like to see these bees survive the winter!
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2011 has come and almost gone
Well, I had the best intentions this year - to blog as much as I did the first year, chronicling my adventures with the bees as a second year beekeeper. What happened? I'd like to say it was my work (employment) that kept me from blogging, and to some extent that is true. I really wish I could say it was the amount of time I spent golfing at Norfolk Golf Club, but, it wasn't. I think it was a combination of a lot of things ... work, family, vacations (count them, 3 - Italy for a week, CapeCod for a week, and California for a week), time spent revamping NorfolkGC.com website (the real reason I didn't write), and some degree of laziness for sure.
Today is Sep 25th, and the season is winding down. We started with 2 nucs this year, and we've been fortunate enough to get a honey harvest - despite all of the rain we had. Of the 2 hives, one seems to be more fond of putting honey on the medium super than the other, and therefore more productive. However, all told between the two hives the total tally is 24 pounds of honey that I have taken. And at this point, I think each hive still has approximately 30-40 lbs for them for the winter. I am not taking any more for me.
For as long as I live, I will cherish the memory of walking into the house with my first medium super of honey. Charlotte asked me what I had, and when I described what it was, she immediately came over with a spoon. Scraping down the comb, breaking it slightly, and scooping up that honey, it couldn't get any fresher that that. The smile on her face is what I live for, and she was smiling from ear to ear as she tasted that honey. She hordes it now :).
Charlotte has bought some 1/2 lb jars and come up with some labels. We have 2 different names on the honey labels: The Literary Bees and The Quotable Bees. Each label is unique and personal with quotes from famous people. We have given some honey away to friends, and we have saved some for Christmas gifts. We have had some (truth be told, more than some) that we've mixed with bourbon at 10 at night. It's been a good year, I've let the bees do their own thing, and they have done it well.
It is an amazing process to watch these bees do their work. Busy as a bee really does describe how they act if you ever are able to sit back and watch a hive. They come and go so quickly from the hive, it's like watching time lapse of planes landing at an airport.
Ever wonder what it takes to make honey?
How many flowers will a bee need to collect nectar from to make one tablespoon of honey?
The answer is 2000 flowers
How many flowers does a bee visit to make a pound of honey?
To make a pound of honey the bees need to visit about two million flowers, and in doing this they will fly something like 55,000 miles -- the equivalent of more than twice around the world.
How many bees does it take to make one pound of honey?
A single bee can collect about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its lifetime, so it would take the life's work of about 560 workers to make a pound of honey.
The product they make is so very good, so very tasty.
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Today is Sep 25th, and the season is winding down. We started with 2 nucs this year, and we've been fortunate enough to get a honey harvest - despite all of the rain we had. Of the 2 hives, one seems to be more fond of putting honey on the medium super than the other, and therefore more productive. However, all told between the two hives the total tally is 24 pounds of honey that I have taken. And at this point, I think each hive still has approximately 30-40 lbs for them for the winter. I am not taking any more for me.
For as long as I live, I will cherish the memory of walking into the house with my first medium super of honey. Charlotte asked me what I had, and when I described what it was, she immediately came over with a spoon. Scraping down the comb, breaking it slightly, and scooping up that honey, it couldn't get any fresher that that. The smile on her face is what I live for, and she was smiling from ear to ear as she tasted that honey. She hordes it now :).
Charlotte has bought some 1/2 lb jars and come up with some labels. We have 2 different names on the honey labels: The Literary Bees and The Quotable Bees. Each label is unique and personal with quotes from famous people. We have given some honey away to friends, and we have saved some for Christmas gifts. We have had some (truth be told, more than some) that we've mixed with bourbon at 10 at night. It's been a good year, I've let the bees do their own thing, and they have done it well.
It is an amazing process to watch these bees do their work. Busy as a bee really does describe how they act if you ever are able to sit back and watch a hive. They come and go so quickly from the hive, it's like watching time lapse of planes landing at an airport.
Ever wonder what it takes to make honey?
How many flowers will a bee need to collect nectar from to make one tablespoon of honey?
The answer is 2000 flowers
How many flowers does a bee visit to make a pound of honey?
To make a pound of honey the bees need to visit about two million flowers, and in doing this they will fly something like 55,000 miles -- the equivalent of more than twice around the world.
How many bees does it take to make one pound of honey?
A single bee can collect about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its lifetime, so it would take the life's work of about 560 workers to make a pound of honey.
The product they make is so very good, so very tasty.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Looking good
Between the poor weather and me being so busy of late, I have not had the opportunities to really get inside the hives to properly check on the bees. I do check the outside activity almost daily and can easily see lots of flights coming and going, can see many pollen laden bees landing, I assume all is OK on the inside.
On Sunday the 19th, I was finally able to do proper hive inspections. Each hive has 2 deeps and a medium super on them. Both hives show capped brood, young larvae, nectar and pollen stores, and capped honey in both deeps. Neither hive is building comb into the medium super. Lots of activity. Interesting is that the bees this year appear to quickly fly up into me as I pull a frame out for inspection - this is behavior I don't recall seeing in the bees of last year. They weren't angry enough to be pinging off the veil or trying to sting the gloves; but, I was well aware of them flying about me for 15 sec or more as I first pulled a frame ... almost as if each frame had their own set of guard bees.
I did find the queen in each hive, and I saw no indications of moths, beetles or mites. I reassembled the hives, leaving the medium supers on top for expansion. Only one hive has a queen excluder on it as I currently only own one of them.
I'll post pictures as soon as I transfer them from the camera.
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On Sunday the 19th, I was finally able to do proper hive inspections. Each hive has 2 deeps and a medium super on them. Both hives show capped brood, young larvae, nectar and pollen stores, and capped honey in both deeps. Neither hive is building comb into the medium super. Lots of activity. Interesting is that the bees this year appear to quickly fly up into me as I pull a frame out for inspection - this is behavior I don't recall seeing in the bees of last year. They weren't angry enough to be pinging off the veil or trying to sting the gloves; but, I was well aware of them flying about me for 15 sec or more as I first pulled a frame ... almost as if each frame had their own set of guard bees.
I did find the queen in each hive, and I saw no indications of moths, beetles or mites. I reassembled the hives, leaving the medium supers on top for expansion. Only one hive has a queen excluder on it as I currently only own one of them.
I'll post pictures as soon as I transfer them from the camera.
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Sunday, May 1, 2011
It's April 30th and I've picked up both nucs. They were here and ready for me on the 16th; but, I was on my way to a week's vacation in Italy. The nucs are interesting - they are essentially 1/2 of a deep super ... They have 5 full frames in them, a fully functioning (already) laying queen, and bees from eggs, through all larval stages, young bees, nurses, foragers, and guards. It's really a functioning mini-hive. Why I didn't start with this last year I do not know. By using a nuc, the bees are fully functional from day one once I install them into the full hive. They do not need the time to free the queen, let her go off and mate, build comb, allow her to lay eggs, and start the whole life cycle. The added cost? Only $5 per nuc.
So I began by setting the nucs on top of the hive bodies to give them a chance to settle down. There is a piece of screen in the nuc opening that keeps them intact while transporting them in the car. After 15 min or so of letting them sit, the noise or hummmmmm level died down a bit so I decided to begin to pull the screen out. Now, I'm doing this without any protection and I am ok with this ... this year so far. As I gently pulled out a corner of the screen, a few bees came spilling out into the air ... no problem. I waited about 10 more minutes before pulling more of the screen, with again more bees coming out. Finally fully pulling out the screen on hive # 1, and then on #2 ... As I did, this one bee darted fast as a jet at me, and stung me on my right thumb in the area where all the fat is. My first sting since I began keeping bees last year! I looked at the stinger in my thumb, and my first thought was to walk in and show Colin the stinger in my hand when I saw the end was pulsing, pumping it's venom into my thumb! I scraped it out with my other thumb nail and went inside. No problem with the sting - no adverse reaction.
About an hour later I returned fully suited up, using gloves and veil and installed them into both hives. It was good to see so many bees again in one spot. I will say that these bees seem so very much more aggressive than those I had last year. There were thousands flying around me, pinging off the veil. They weren't thrilled with being transferred from the nuc body to the hive body; but, they survived and so did I. I had the carryover frames from last fall that had comb and some capped honey on it, I used those to complete the 10 frames in each hive's deep super, put the inner and top cover on and walked away. No stings through the gloves or the suit.
Lots of activity around the hive, yet by dusk, all had settled in to their new homes.
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So I began by setting the nucs on top of the hive bodies to give them a chance to settle down. There is a piece of screen in the nuc opening that keeps them intact while transporting them in the car. After 15 min or so of letting them sit, the noise or hummmmmm level died down a bit so I decided to begin to pull the screen out. Now, I'm doing this without any protection and I am ok with this ... this year so far. As I gently pulled out a corner of the screen, a few bees came spilling out into the air ... no problem. I waited about 10 more minutes before pulling more of the screen, with again more bees coming out. Finally fully pulling out the screen on hive # 1, and then on #2 ... As I did, this one bee darted fast as a jet at me, and stung me on my right thumb in the area where all the fat is. My first sting since I began keeping bees last year! I looked at the stinger in my thumb, and my first thought was to walk in and show Colin the stinger in my hand when I saw the end was pulsing, pumping it's venom into my thumb! I scraped it out with my other thumb nail and went inside. No problem with the sting - no adverse reaction.
About an hour later I returned fully suited up, using gloves and veil and installed them into both hives. It was good to see so many bees again in one spot. I will say that these bees seem so very much more aggressive than those I had last year. There were thousands flying around me, pinging off the veil. They weren't thrilled with being transferred from the nuc body to the hive body; but, they survived and so did I. I had the carryover frames from last fall that had comb and some capped honey on it, I used those to complete the 10 frames in each hive's deep super, put the inner and top cover on and walked away. No stings through the gloves or the suit.
Lots of activity around the hive, yet by dusk, all had settled in to their new homes.
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Monday, March 7, 2011
Another year
It's 2011 and I'm more than ready and anxious to get going again with the bees!
I plan on having 2 active hives this year so I've ordered 2 nucs to start off with. A nuc is a hive nucleus - it is a box that has 5 working frames with the queen already laying eggs on it. So the bees and the queen are already aclimated to each other. Supposedly it means that the bees start up immediately when installed into my hive. When you start with 3 lbs of bees and a new queen, there is a lag period where the new queen and bees aclimate to each other, then a slow die off of bees while the queen begins laying and new bees develop to build the hive population. With the nuc, the hive is supposedly immediately functional. Time will tell.
Bee nucs will come in April.
I plan on having 2 active hives this year so I've ordered 2 nucs to start off with. A nuc is a hive nucleus - it is a box that has 5 working frames with the queen already laying eggs on it. So the bees and the queen are already aclimated to each other. Supposedly it means that the bees start up immediately when installed into my hive. When you start with 3 lbs of bees and a new queen, there is a lag period where the new queen and bees aclimate to each other, then a slow die off of bees while the queen begins laying and new bees develop to build the hive population. With the nuc, the hive is supposedly immediately functional. Time will tell.
Bee nucs will come in April.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
So, What Happened?
I haven't posted to the blog in a long time, over a month now. I just haven't had my heart in it. The new replacement queen I bought didn't make it. She never was freed from her cage - why? I will never know exactly - perhaps it's too late in the season, perhaps the other bees in the hive were distracted, perhaps there is something else that caused it. Whatever the reason, the end result is that she was never freed, and now there is no queen in this hive, and despite trying yet again to purchase another queen within 10 days of this last purchase, now it IS too late. The suppliers are not shipping this late into the season, it is too cold.
So what happens now? Well, without a queen in the hive, there are no new bees being born. As the hive bees die off naturally from old age, and without new bees being born daily to replace them, the hive slowly dies off. It may be a poor analogy; but, it becomes like an old age/nursing home, excepts that it lacks the attendants, and there are no new residents coming in. I suspect that by mid-December it will be a bee-less hive. A home without occupants.
The typical lifecycle of a worker bee is: egg (3 days), larva (6 days) and pupa (12 days) for a total of 21 days from egg (baby) to adult worker.
The average age for a worker bee (excluding the winter months) is 45 to 60 days ... longer during the winter months as they nominally cluster around the queen in the hive to maintain heat.
A week ago I went into the hive to see what was going on. There were still bees in there; but, not many. I'd guess probably 300-400. So if I work a timeline backwards, I would assume that those bees were born perhaps 30 days before, or around the beginning of October, those eggs would have been laid about the end of the first week or so in September. Looking back at my blog posts, I was writing about doing the sugar dustings back then, and I know I had a thriving bee population at that time. Conclusion? My guess is that somehow, perhaps as I was moving supers around, pulling a frame, and doing the sugar dusting, I must have inadvertently crushed and killed my original queen. I reason that had she swarmed off, there would have been a successor left in her place, and there wasn't. So somehow this queen perished, and without a queen, the hive is doomed.
So, lessons learned the hard way, I will start over again in the spring. This time around, I will get that second hive setup and maintain both hives. With a year's experience behind me (older and hopefully wiser), I can then check and compare the status of each hive. I will pay more attention to my dusting technique, and hopefully the outcome next year will be different.
Yes, I am disappointed with this year's outcome.
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So what happens now? Well, without a queen in the hive, there are no new bees being born. As the hive bees die off naturally from old age, and without new bees being born daily to replace them, the hive slowly dies off. It may be a poor analogy; but, it becomes like an old age/nursing home, excepts that it lacks the attendants, and there are no new residents coming in. I suspect that by mid-December it will be a bee-less hive. A home without occupants.
The typical lifecycle of a worker bee is: egg (3 days), larva (6 days) and pupa (12 days) for a total of 21 days from egg (baby) to adult worker.
The average age for a worker bee (excluding the winter months) is 45 to 60 days ... longer during the winter months as they nominally cluster around the queen in the hive to maintain heat.
A week ago I went into the hive to see what was going on. There were still bees in there; but, not many. I'd guess probably 300-400. So if I work a timeline backwards, I would assume that those bees were born perhaps 30 days before, or around the beginning of October, those eggs would have been laid about the end of the first week or so in September. Looking back at my blog posts, I was writing about doing the sugar dustings back then, and I know I had a thriving bee population at that time. Conclusion? My guess is that somehow, perhaps as I was moving supers around, pulling a frame, and doing the sugar dusting, I must have inadvertently crushed and killed my original queen. I reason that had she swarmed off, there would have been a successor left in her place, and there wasn't. So somehow this queen perished, and without a queen, the hive is doomed.
So, lessons learned the hard way, I will start over again in the spring. This time around, I will get that second hive setup and maintain both hives. With a year's experience behind me (older and hopefully wiser), I can then check and compare the status of each hive. I will pay more attention to my dusting technique, and hopefully the outcome next year will be different.
Yes, I am disappointed with this year's outcome.
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