Thanks to the list my first hive appears to be a success. I put the
package in Thursday night and Friday afternoon the front entrance was
alive with activity. Today there was a lot of activity in front of the
hive - lots of bees swirling around within 3 feet of the entrance. I
could tell that lots of them had to "go" because there are a lot of
brown spots here and there. The weather should be even warmer tomorrow
so they should be able to get a good solid footing soon.
I have another package arriving late next week for the second hive. It
is about 5 feet away from the other hive. The bees from the first hive
have definitely been looking around the 2nd one but I have all of the
entrances closed up.
You can see them flying around via some video I took with my camera:
http://boxborough.digistar.us/~jsb/bees/frontbees.wmv
Thanks,
Jason
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