Tag Archives: nucs

Preparing Bees For Winter Part 3: Nucleus Hives in Winter

Posted on November 6, 2012 by brookfieldfarmhoney

Over-wintering nucleus hives at Brookfield Farm Bees And Honey, Maple Falls, Washington. What I usually do, and this years experiment. Continue reading →

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Walk Away Splits in a Bee Busy Week

Posted on May 4, 2012 by brookfieldfarmhoney

How to do an emergency walk-away split (don’t look for the queen, you’ll find out later where she is) and a crazed bee busy week at Brookfield Farm Bees And Honey, Maple Falls, WA Continue reading →

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An Idea for Practicing Grafting Honeybee Larvae

Posted on July 27, 2011 by brookfieldfarmhoney

A recap of our group’s queen bee grafting endeavors, and an idea on how to practice grafting honeybee larvae without a cell builder to test one’s grafts Continue reading →

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Workers and Queen Cells Unite! Adventures in Queen Rearing, Part 2

Posted on July 10, 2011 by brookfieldfarmhoney

Our group puts the gathered nurse honeybees and a queen cell into mini-mating nuclei (nucs) to allow the queen bee to emerge and begin to lay eggs. Continue reading →

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Over-night beehive splits – what a difference a day makes this spring

Posted on May 2, 2011 by brookfieldfarmhoney

Weather changes during the making of over-night splits at Brookfield Farm in Maple Falls. Shots of splits being made in the sun at one of Bruce Bowen’s bee yards. How over-night splits are created to make new nucs at Brookfield Farm Continue reading →

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Making Splits With Swarm Cells

Posted on May 28, 2010 by brookfieldfarmhoney

Using swarm cells with developing queens to create honeybee nucleus hives (nucs). What I look for in a queen cell: description and location. Photos from Cyberbee.net: Dr. Zachary Huang, Department of Entomology, Michigan State University. Continue reading →

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Preparing for Nucs at a 700 Colony Operation

Posted on April 20, 2010 by brookfieldfarmhoney

Sorting out waxed, plastic honeybee foundation and preparing nucleus (nuc) boxes with Bruce Bowen, of Bruce Bowen’s Bees, in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Continue reading →

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