{"id":323,"date":"2011-04-05T12:11:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T16:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/?p=323"},"modified":"2011-04-05T12:11:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T16:11:04","slug":"nucs-arrive-may-13-14-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/nucs-arrive-may-13-14-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Nucs Arrive May 13, 14, Maybe."},"content":{"rendered":"

In addition to the packages that are supposed to arrive on April 15th, I ordered a couple of nucs from apiary near, Gooserock Farm<\/a>, where they breed “Jersey Girl” queens. They will be making up the nucs as soon as the queens are available.<\/p>\n

I got this today:<\/p>\n

As you all know, Old Man Winter seems very reluctant to loosen his icy grip
\nthis year. The cold wet weather has made it impossible to get good
\nwell-mated queens early in the season and we are not going to be able to get
\nour nucs ready for pick-up until May 13 and May 14 at the earliest.<\/p>\n

I like to try to get them ready a bit earlier than this but it’s just not
\ngoing to happen this year. My first priority is the quality of the nucleus
\ncolonies I sell, and to that end, I need to hold onto them long enough to be
\nsure the queens are well established and laying with a decent pattern.<\/p>\n

Thanks, and bee well!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Connie, the hive that made it through the winter, is doing so well that I am going to try a split. I fed her a half gallon of sugar Sunday. Yesterday the girls were coming back with lots of pollen, but weren’t taking the sugar. I’ll check again when I get home.<\/p>\n

Martha, the hive I thought was dead, seems to have some bees in her. I can’t tell if they are robbers or not. There was little activity in front of the hive which would indicate they are not robbers. When I opened the hive, though, a bunch of defenders came out. The sugar in her feeder is a little lower, but I saw no bees drinking.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what is going on with Martha. If she is alive, she is very weak. I want her to catch up and start growing. I don’t have the heart to kill her, so as long as it looks like there is a queen, I will leave her alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to the packages that are supposed to arrive on April 15th, I ordered a couple of nucs from apiary near, Gooserock Farm, where they breed “Jersey Girl” queens. They will be making up the nucs as soon as the queens are available. I got this today: As you all know, Old Man Winter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}