Learning to Install a Package of Bees

Reader Contribution by Anna Hess And Mark Hamilton
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The theme of the past week has been bees.  We finished our top bar hive just in time to put together a Warre hive for side by side comparison.  (Well, same farm comparison–honey bees are healthier if their colonies are separated by a good distance.)

Then the packages arrived.  We installed both packages, enjoyed watching the bees through our top bar hive’s observation window…and then tried to catch the swarm when one hive’s bees absconded.  In a matter of hours, we’d gone from having 24,000 head of bees on our farm to a mere 12,000.

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