https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-difference-between-a-package-and-a-nuc/ Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:17:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-difference-between-a-package-and-a-nuc/#comment-132298 Fri, 02 Apr 2021 01:01:56 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=3333#comment-132298 I found this to be very informative and to the point. Very easy to understand.
Thank you.

]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-difference-between-a-package-and-a-nuc/#comment-88496 Tue, 16 Jul 2019 18:01:54 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=3333#comment-88496 […] Nucs for sale with a nice wood nuc box included tend to be more expensive. The box can be used over and over again in your beekeeping program. […]

]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-difference-between-a-package-and-a-nuc/#comment-48123 Fri, 31 Mar 2017 23:57:33 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=3333#comment-48123 I would like to begin a project with people who would like to begin raising bees .What procedures should be done?,since .Im in Nassau County ,Long Island..,I myself, currently are working on a project for raising pheasants for the Department t of Environmental Conservation Bureau of Wildlife Section 1 from Stony Brook NY. Who could I contact to ask for donations to purchase the equipment necessary and permits if needed.The DEC does not supply equipment for raising the pheasants,,i must do that but.they do give the chicks.

]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-difference-between-a-package-and-a-nuc/#comment-47936 Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:26:29 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=3333#comment-47936 What about reusing comb from another hive when purchasing package bees? wouldn’t this give them something to build on? Can you take a brood frame and install it into the new package of bees to “Jump start” them and help them out a little?

]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-difference-between-a-package-and-a-nuc/#comment-47927 Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:36:17 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=3333#comment-47927 A downside to nucs is pests can be transferred. In our state, anyone can sell up to 9 nucs without being inspected. That’s a lot of opportunity for disease and pests of bees to spread. Varroa and hive beetles are treatable, but if a nuc has the initial beginnings of some disease like foulbrood, that is bad. Not only wasting your money, but spreading disease to other bee hives nearby the nuc’s destination. I don’t think anyone would sell a nuc if they thought it might be diseased, but use a state inspected beekeeper as a source and you have better chances of not transferring any disease.

]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-difference-between-a-package-and-a-nuc/#comment-47158 Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:39:05 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=3333#comment-47158 It’s spelled “nuc” short for nucleous colony.

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