You are right that this is late.  Too late but it is a test.  The truth is 
that I have been way to busy and I thought better to test than wait another 
year.  I will know if late fall/early winter is possible.  I will leave them 
in the bus all year.  The only problem I have read about is the potential 
for bacteria.  I found pics of German wagons with bee in them (circa 1880's) 
all year and moved throughout the year.  There were holes of various sizes 
and shapes on the outside of the wagon where the bees entered.  I hope to do 
the same on the bus.  As to nucs or full size, there are both.  I hope to 
see positive results from both.  The hives have no wind or snow on them so 
they are extremely active and downing the sugar water.  Obviously a critical 
time.  Honey stores are slim so hoping to see the sugar water carry them 
through.  Carrying them into the bus was a bit of work and a bit exciting as 
well.  I have steps now so no real crisis in the transferring.  I now of a 
bus for sale cheap with a wheelchair lift that works well.  That would be an 
ideal way to wheel the hive over and then just raise to bus floor level.   I 
am going to try to devise a secure system to secure them to the floor should 
I move the bus to a field of fireweed.  I do not want to be driving and have 
30 hives, three stories high fall over.  Would be a sight to be pulled over 
by the Troopers.  As this is a Nuc thread I will humbly depart.

Dr. Joe Carson

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