{"id":478,"date":"2012-04-09T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/?p=478"},"modified":"2012-04-09T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T13:54:16","slug":"the-morning-after-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/the-morning-after-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morning After Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am worried about the bees. It is a bad day: sunny but very windy. The bees want to fly, but it they do they will blow away and probably die. The bees are all installed, but I am not sure they will all take. A good number of packages die due to a bad queen, or dissatisfaction with the hive. <\/p>\n<p>I tried to use as much drawn comb as I could in the new hives, hoping the bees will see it as home. I had not frames of honey, though, like last year. A frame or two of honey will convince any queen that the new hive is a good place to live.<\/p>\n<p>Right now the bees are gathering around the front and there is a lot of cleaning going on. I hope that they like their new homes and stay.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a slide show of what the hives looked like this morning.<\/p>\n<p><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feat=flashalbum&#038;RGB=0x000000&#038;feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fkpgraham%2Falbumid%2F5729387075017308737%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am worried about the bees. It is a bad day: sunny but very windy. The bees want to fly, but it they do they will blow away and probably die. The bees are all installed, but I am not sure they will all take. A good number of packages die due to a bad [&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\/478"}],"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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}