Leave a note in his mailbox telling him you are interested in making a deal on the abandoned hives. With a phone number. It has worked for me.Gotta love the duckies! Mine are around ten weeks old, and the drakes are now feathering in with their adult colors. It's a patchy process, though, so they look more like unkempt, bedraggled hobos than soon-to-be-handsome boys.
We're hearing quite a bit about bees swarming this year. Our completely wild guess is that they had lower death rates than usual thanks to the warm winter, so the hives are already strong. Acquiring six new colonies this year must be great!There's a guy on Route 20 who has two unused hives at the edge of his yard (they have stuff piled up against them and on top of them). Alan is trying to catch him outside so he can make an offer to buy them, since both are big ones with multiple supers. Dude is never home, though, dang the luck.
Oh my! such cuteness!!
We just got our first hive last night. My 16yo DS wants to manage them. (YAY!) When 12yo DD first saw them, she said "awww they're so cute! " DH gave her a weird look and said "they're bees."Just wait, when he sees as new bee come crawling out, he will be going goo goo gaga at th em too.
