Getting Started in Beekeeping – Installing Packaged Bees!
Thanks for joining us for another blog post on DC-Bees.com! It has been a little while since I’ve posted, probably because I’ve been enjoying the honey mead that I made a while back! For the last several weeks I’ve been eagerly preparing a new apiary for an influx of packaged bees. This was my first use of packaged bees. I started out beekeeping by purchasing a nuc hive. I have traditionally grown my hives through raising my own queens, making splits, or purchasing a queen, if I found myself in a pickle or wanted to try a new strain of bees. This year I decided to significantly ramp up the number of hives I have, so I’m giving packaged bees a try!