nuc – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:00:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 nuc – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 Swarm Catching + Video https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/swarm-catching-video/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/swarm-catching-video/#comments Wed, 04 May 2016 21:26:21 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=2576 April in north Georgia means swarming season. I tried for about three years before I finally caught my first swarm last year. I put one of my nuc boxes up in a Bradford pear tree about 7 feet off the ground and put some lemongrass oil on it in mid-March. I caught a swarm in it about a month later. But I failed many times before.

In this post, I wanted to pass along what has worked for me and what has not so far.

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/swarm-catching-video/feed/ 4 Packages or Nucs — Which is a Better Start? https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/packages-nucs-better-start/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/packages-nucs-better-start/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:21:01 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=910 from Enjoy Beekeeping Spring is just around the corner. Many beekeepers both new and experienced, are making plans for starting new colonies of bees in 2015. Are you one of the many that currently enjoy this amazing hobby? If so, you already know the excitement that comes from bringing home your package or nuc from your […]

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