{"id":653,"date":"2013-04-21T22:31:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T03:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/?p=653"},"modified":"2013-04-30T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:43:10","slug":"installing-a-package-of-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2013\/04\/21\/installing-a-package-of-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing a Package of Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a number of years since I have installed a &#8220;package&#8221; of honeybees. \u00a0But this winter we suffered heavy losses in the apiary, so it is time to get some fresh bees into the yard.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered a 3 lb. package from Chris and Vanessa Rogers at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodsbeefarm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Backwoods Bee Farm in Windham<\/a>. \u00a0Good folks who brought about 300 packages into Maine this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Below are images from my install this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-654\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-654\" alt=\"Installing a package of bees.  Empty hive, some sugar water, and a hive tool is just about all you need.\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/installing-a-package-of-bees.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/installing-a-package-of-bees.jpg 640w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/installing-a-package-of-bees-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installing a package of bees. Empty hive, some sugar water, and a hive tool is just about all you need.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-656\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-656\" alt=\"3 Pound Package of Honeybees\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/3lb-package-of-bees.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/3lb-package-of-bees.jpg 640w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/3lb-package-of-bees-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3 Pound Package of Honeybees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-658\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-658\" alt=\"Close up of a 3 Pound Package of Honeybees\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/close-up-of-bee-package.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/close-up-of-bee-package.jpg 640w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/close-up-of-bee-package-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Close up of a 3 Pound Package of Honeybees -for you squeamish folks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-659\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-659\" alt=\"Queen Cage - hard to see, but she sure is puny.\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/queen-in-cage.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/queen-in-cage.jpg 640w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/queen-in-cage-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen Cage &#8211; hard to see, but she sure is puny.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_660\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-660\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-660\" alt=\"The few leftover bees in the package march their way into the hive.\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/leftover-bees.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/leftover-bees.jpg 640w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/leftover-bees-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The few leftover bees in the package march their way into the hive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you are looking for a good video on the process,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ek7dDtZ0lK8\" target=\"_blank\">here you go<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a number of years since I have installed a &#8220;package&#8221; of honeybees. \u00a0But this winter we suffered heavy losses in the apiary, so it is time to get some fresh bees into the yard. I ordered a 3 lb. package from Chris and Vanessa Rogers at\u00a0Backwoods Bee Farm in Windham. \u00a0Good folks &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2013\/04\/21\/installing-a-package-of-bees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Installing a Package of Bees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beekeeping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}