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In todays video we have an exciting announcement...we have opened up our first out apiary!!!

[@NeuravnoveRS]

1. You need to get those bees inside greenhouses. They can get in, but they can't get out, because they don't remember the exact path, they follow the sun and magnetic forces, which means not only they can't bring any pollen and nectar home, once they get stuck on the top of the greenhouse, the scout bees (which are the ones that point the majority of worker bees into your income and actually find the flowers in the greenhouse) also can't tell the main workforce; to go work the strawberries/whatever you want to pollinate. 2. you need some kind of ventilation cover for transport. It can be dirt cheap, but it has to prevent the bees to escape during transport and allow them to breath. Any kind of frame will work, an old cupboard or whatever for a frame, and some mesh to give them a chance to cool down/get air, the mesh needs to be small enough so that the bees cant get their heads through the holes (if the holes are too big, worker bees can get their heads stuck in the mesh and prevent airflow to the whole colony) and you're good to go, so like a pound per cover for mesh*(number of hives you can get in your pickup). Good job on thinking ahead with feeding, those hives are bringing value in staying strong and pollinating the crops ASAP, they are bringing consistent value to the greenhouse owner when they are only fed sucrose, you want to give them energy, without supplementing pollen which they should get from collecting pollen and subsequently pollinating the crops. You want to make pollen intake the bottleneck for your bees when you're on a pollinating job. By pollinating the flowers as they start to flower, they lower the cost for your farmer and increase their income, as the gathering labor gets spread out as much as possible(less laborers spread across a longer period of time bring lower costs to the farmer with lower risks for the workers), as you very well know as a tractor operator. You have a lot more negotiating power as a pollinator contractor than you have as a machinery operator, everyone wants to run a tractor, not many people want to get a bee-sting or 10 a day.

[@aidan4158]

I'm glad you feed the bees as it takes them several hours to seven days to reorient to their new location. Great Video 🐝

[@Lagness_Farms_Honey]

Thank you!!

[@CMJSC1997]

if i were to get 1 beehive on 1/3 of an acre would i still be able to cut my grass without a bee suit on?

[@Lagness_Farms_Honey]

Good question, from my experience if you can cut it early in the morning or later in the evening you can get away with it but I was having to cut in the afternoon and the bees were a bit spicy that day! Another option is if you were to buy a smock, just the top half of a bee suit that would be more than enough with a pair of long trousers on