The bees are now back from California and are waiting in a yard in Mesquite Nevada for us to pick them up. We might just leave them there for a while since Mesquite will be blooming for a while and give them some good feed. Bryant will probably get a couple of hives to use for grafting queens out of. Our first set of queens were grafted on Sunday the 23rd. So far it looks like a few of them have taken. We will know for sure on the number in about 11-14 days from Sunday. Our goal is to graft a bunch of new queens for ourselves and then also a bunch to sell in the fall.
We have been busy making new nuc boxes for the new queens. We are making 120 nuc boxes. They are all about put together. Then we just need to make lids for all of them and then paint them all. We are also making tons of frames. There are a lot of frames completed, but we still need to put the foundation in them. We seem to work better under a nearing deadline and so we should be able to get things done quickly now.
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