
Kicking off our beekeeping year, a Zoom meeting will be held on Tuesday, Jan 25 starting at 6:00 PM.
We will be wide open to beekeeping questions and concerns.
Planning and strategies for the coming season will be our focus.
We will introduce the beekeepers offering nucleus hives and queens for local pickup.
We will re-energize our club swarm list for the spring season.
A short primer on equipment and practices for free-flying swarm capture will be given.
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Topic: 2022 Spring Kick-off
Time: Jan 25, 2022 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 863 8983 5811
Passcode: 355821
Meeting ID: 863 8983 5811
Passcode: 355821


48 hours in advance, brood is shaken free of bees and moved above a QE. The frames will be queenless, but heavily attended by nurse bees. Eggs above the excluder age out, so queencells won’t complicate the introduction of a mated queen.
Frames are pulled and arranged in boxes. One open comb, one pollen frame, two brood frames, one honey frame. Brood frames go in the center of the nuc.
. Cages are kept corked for 2-3 days, and then the candy cork is opened. A further 2 days allows the hive to open the candy. Only at day 5-6 is a passage through the candy drilled.