Beekeeping in Central Louisiana
Yesterday April 28, 2018, I installed a five-frame nucleus hive into my ten-frame deep hive body. This morning I checked on the activity of my bee's, and this is what I found.
Check out the short video below!
The girls have already oriented themselves to their new home. If you look close, you can see the foragers returning loaded with pollen!
I installed the entryway feeders in case they needed a little boost establishing the new colony. It looks like they are ignoring it in favor of the surrounding nectar flow!
These are some of the wildflowers I plant around the place to help my bee colonies.
Colorful, don't you think?
Early Tallow Tree Blossom
Here in central Louisiana, the Tallow trees are about to bloom, and the pollinators love them! They make tasty honey too!
The bees are feeding on the last of the Privet Hedge blossoms and the Dutch Clover at the moment.
The last of the Mayhaws are falling from the trees; they produced in abundance this year. I hate to leave these to rot, but I've harvested all we can process, and unless the neighbors come gather them I'll have to let nature claim them.
That's what's going on at our place today!
I hope you enjoyed this short post!
CARRY ON!