Bee nuc

So, you want to get bees but aren't sure how to buy them! Let me explain the difference between a nuc and packaged bees, and explain the best way to insure success this year! #howtobuybees #nucsorpackagedbees

How To Build A Quick 5-Frame Beehive Nuc Box - It's helpful this time of year to have small beehive boxes at the ready for swarms and such. Thankfully you can build FOUR 5-frame beehive nuc boxes from one single sheet of plywood! #TexasHomesteader

A nuc box is like a starter box for a new bee colony. It is typically a small hive with between three and five frames. You should start out with a mated, accepted queen and at least three frames that are already filled with honey and brood and are fully drawn out. In this article, we discuss when to move bees from nuc to hive & also what time of day are bees most active. Read on to learn more.

We recently bought two honey bee nucs to expand the number of hives we have. The kids and I watched as my husband installed the nuc in the hive. It was so fascinating to see

A Nuc is a hive in miniature and can house a functioning colony of bees. Our Nuc is about half the size of our full hive. The Nuc can be a temporary home for the bees, whether you just caught a swarm or made a split from your hive. The intent of the temporary home in the nuc is to transfer the colony from the Nuc into a full hive, so that the colony has time to fully fill out a regular size hive.

Learn the basic guidelines for installing a nuc into regular sized beehives. Nuc colonies are a great way to grow your apiary.

Learn how to know when it is time to move bees from a nuc to a full-sized hive. Know the signs to look for to help your colony grow.

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There are many queen mating boxes on the market today. We prefer using standard equipment as much as possible because it creates a more fluid beekeeping operation. Our beekeeping mating boxes consists of a regular deep super with 1/4 inch plywood as partitions. The partitions are held in place by dado cuts into the box […]

Mini Mating Nuc

Beekeepers who split hives to prevent swarming will want to know how to make their own nucleus colony (nuc) box. Learn what a nuc box is and how to make one.

There are a few different ways to purchase a new colony of bees but packages or nucs are two of the most common. In this article I describe what each is,

Our experience installing a bee nuc was interesting, beautiful, and scary all at once.

Humble Abodes 3-Way Queen Mating Nuc - Medium [QMN3MED] - 3-Way Medium Queen Mating Nuc is a great tool to help expand your growing apiary. Use this mating nuc to raise queens from grafted cells or quickly make small nucs using swarm cells from your other hives. Each 3-Way Medium Nuc has 3 compartments that will hold 3 medium frames

We survived the drive home with bees loose in the car, we survived installing a bee nuc, and we (and the bees) learned how to coexist. See how we did it.

Michael Palmer 4 Frame NUC plan

How to Make Nucleus Honeybee Hives Making nucleus hives or “nucs” is a good way to expand your apiary without spending a lot of money and without the worry of introducing Africanized genetics from packaged bees. https://loom.ly/LyMpOKY

Description 5-Frame Standard Nuc body holds 5 -9 1/8" frames. Use as second story for standard Nuc.

For Mother’s Day I built my mom a pretty cool gift (if I do say so myself!) I took the basic plans for a nuc box (which can be found with a simple google search but also HERE) and this toolb…

Plywood Honey Bee Swarm Bait Catch Hive and Nucleus Box - Dual Purpose How to DIY Plans: Catching swarms of honey bees has to be one of the most exciting and fascinating events of the year. I say 'event' as it tends to happen mostly in the month of May in the UK. Last year, 2015, we caught 9 such swarms and increased our own hive number…