{"id":341,"date":"2011-04-19T12:15:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/?p=341"},"modified":"2011-04-19T12:15:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T16:15:44","slug":"new-bee-packages-next-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/new-bee-packages-next-day\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bee Packages, Next Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a few days I need to check the queen cages to see if the queen has escaped. I forgot to take a nail and poke the candy a little to expedite the queen&#8217;s escape from the cage.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/queen-cage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-342\" title=\"queen-cage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/queen-cage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere is a place for the queen and a few of her friends and there is a plug of candy blocking the way out. She&#8217;ll eat her way out and other bees will be eating their way in.<\/p>\n<p>I opened the top of the hive to check the feeders and there were lots of bees drinking the sugar syrup. I will buy 20 pounds of sugar on the way home today. The cheapest is ShopRite brand 5 pound bags. I would like to try one of the big box stores, but I don&#8217;t know anyone who has one of their passes to loan to me.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday or Friday I will suite up when I get home and check the girls out. If they have escaped I&#8217;ll remove the cage and put the 10th frame back in. I am nervous that I did something wrong so I might check before that. They tell you not to open the hive while the queen is getting acquainted, but I am a little antsy about this.<\/p>\n<p>I did notice lots of clumping in the packages around what might have been a queen. It makes sense that a queen would get sucked up with the bees when they make the package. This might mean that I have double the chance of a queen making it alive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll feed them as long as they take sugar. The Martha hive is looking more poorly than ever and I expect it to be gone by the time the Nucs arrive on the 15th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a few days I need to check the queen cages to see if the queen has escaped. I forgot to take a nail and poke the candy a little to expedite the queen&#8217;s escape from the cage. There is a place for the queen and a few of her friends and there is a [&hellip;]<\/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\/341"}],"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=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}