Bees Heading Off To Their New Homes. How To Prepare Bees For Shipping.

[@DiverPeg]

I can’t believe you are standing in water while you do this! Oh my word! Shocking weather.

[@_J.F_]

That was a beautiful looking queen, and a beautiful looking nuc you had there too. Mine are not so happy with the wet, cold and windy weather so I am really hoping for some milder weather. Unfortunately the forecast is for more cold nights and a bit of frost too so any hope of spring honey is more or less wishful thinking, unless we get a miracle change in weather very soon.

[@paulfairbrass4424]

Happy days this weekend, lots of nice and rare sunshine. And the bee's are going crazy

[@SpiderMan-pf6pu]

Its nice that you’re delivering is on time and three weeks later I’m still waiting that’s good for you and my bee are died never on time I will call you tomorrow

[@aidan4158]

May you do a video intruding the new queens to the nucs please 🐝

[@gwenyngruffydd]

No problem 😊👍🏻

[@DenbeeHoney]

Great video as always Griff… my Sunday morning treat. A cup of tea and some KZbin

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Thank you ☺️

[@jscfb]

Brilliant video and really useful process of using double nucs to keep the nucleus business going throughout whole season 👏 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Thank you ☺️

[@hevchip741]

Good to see the process. I recently had a nuc that totally died on me so have ordered one from you, nice to see how it's done.

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Thank you ☺️ Hope the bees serve you well

[@tyrrells_honey]

Great video Gruff, we all suffer with terrible weather here in the UK.Lets hope for some drier weather. When you split the nuc do you just tuck the entrance with grass and keep it on the same nuc yard or move 3 miles away?

[@gwenyngruffydd]

I normally take them to another nuc yard. But if they’re staying on the same site I do a 3 frame split but shake a 4th frame in to allow enough young bees to stay. I don’t use grass just move them. The young bees don’t know any different

[@won2winit]

I had to transport a colony of bees in February back to the owner from Aberdeen to Kent, so shipped in a Paynes with a solid roof. Arrived via Royal Mail with no issues. Like you to save any congestion or over heating issues I only added three out of the 4 brood frames, one of stores and directly over the open mesh two super frames. The excess brood and bees were combined with one of my overwintering nucs so now on double brood, will be adding a third for comb production to replace frames throughout my hives. Once that's finished will use it for queen rearing as have not tried grafting yet and fancy giving it a go.

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Time of year makes a big difference too. June onwards can be the big problem. But the biggest risk is the postman blocking up the ventilation by accident with mail and other parcels. Out of interest why did you ship bees in February?

[@won2winit]

@gwenyngruffydd I was caretaking a hive at a corporate client for the operating company based in Kent. The contract was not renewed and initially they wanted them returned earlier but it was minus 2 and snowing, so that was not happening. 24th Feb when most of you were at Telford I got good enough weather to do the eviction. Postie collected them from my house on Monday 26th after being in my cellar for 2 days, sprayed some water just before they left.

[@Cubrider]

BS honey bees must be buying mated queens in this time of year, couldn't be you buy them in direct like Laurance and cut out the middle man? You could even sell a few. I'm sure I worked out Laurance did 400k last year on queens alone. I've bought 5 off him this year and now your having a massive Internet presence I think your missing a big trick Gruff

[@gwenyngruffydd]

I am very tempted! But we don’t have the man power here at the moment to cope with extra work load. Lawrence outsources his nuc work so he has more time to do queens. Very efficient business model. I’m stuck all day doing bees at the moment. I would need to employ someone specifically for queen importing and shipping if I was going to go down that road. I probably will one day….but definitely not this year! 😅