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How to Hive a Package of Bees : GardenFork.TV Beginning Beekeeping

Posted by Eric Gunnar Rochow on Apr 9th, 2010 and filed under Beekeeping TV. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

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How do you get your honeybees into your new beehive? By Hiving the Package. Watch as we show you how to hive a bee package into a beehive, how to remove the queen from the package, and how to get the bees into your new beehive. This episode is part of our Beginning Beekeeper series of how-to videos, watch here.

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Have you hived a package? any suggestions or tips or comments? Please write below the post, Thx!

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Here is what a bee package looks like

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3 Responses for “How to Hive a Package of Bees : GardenFork.TV Beginning Beekeeping”

  1. Amy Han says:

    Thanks for posting! My husband and I are looking into doing our own beehives and this was something we weren’t sure about. We presently have a beekeeper on site and he is teaching us everything we need to know to get keep an established hive happy and healthy, but this was something he couldn’t show us. Thanks for the info Eric! Always great stuff.

  2. Meg Paska says:

    Sweet sponsorship, dude! Great video too!

  3. [...] can watch our video: How to hive a package of bees here. The bees in the package are surrounding the queen cage and the sugar feeder in the box [...]

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