The Honey Factory

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Why would your post office be closed tomorrow or Monday? The Post Office Is open those days. Easter is not an observed holiday.

The post office in Sissonville is very small and Google claims that due to the Easter holiday the opening hours "may be different".
But definitely they're closed on Sunday.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Funny thing is Canada imports bees from all over the world. Unfortunately thats how North America will get more deadlier diseases and Tropilaelaps mite.

https://www.albertabeekeepers.ca/bee-imports-2023-now-thats-more-like-it/

They import bees from Australia?!
Those bees are on the completely wrong schedule! How can they even survive?

 

[5Australorpasaures]

I have ordered a NUC from a local bee-breeder, but he has only Russians and i am not too sure about those. So i ordered a package of Italians from the D. They made excellent honey from the autumn olives and the Tulip-trees last year...

Russians are great producers and very cold tolerant. Can be a little cantankerous.

 

[SheaLoner]

The post office in Sissonville is very small and Google claims that due to the Easter holiday the opening hours "may be different".
But definitely they're closed on Sunday.

Def closed Sunday, my one day off. It looks to be a full day office. Barring a catastrophe they will be open Sat and Mon. If you know which hub your mail comes from and feel up for driving you might be able to get them a day earlier, or even Sunday. Nobody wants bees hanging around on a dock over a weekend.

 

[Apis mellifera]

Russian bees aren't for everyone but they worked out great for me. Fantastic overwintering on a fraction of the honey that other bees need. Great wax and honey production. Most impressive is the disease resistance. After several years Im not sure how much of the original genetics I have but they are doing better than any bees I ever had. I bought queens from the Russian Honeybee Breeders Association.
https://www.russianhoneybeebreeders.org/

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Russians are great producers and very cold tolerant. Can be a little cantankerous.

The local breeder said it different: »Bee careful around them, they are easily p¡ssed off, just Russians…«
Maybe i should buy some Vodka for them?

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Def closed Sunday, my one day off. It looks to be a full day office. Barring a catastrophe they will be open Sat and Mon. If you know which hub your mail comes from and feel up for driving you might be able to get them a day earlier, or even Sunday. Nobody wants bees hanging around on a dock over a weekend.

From earlier tracking i have seen that packages go through a USPS distribution center in South-Charleston, but i cannot find it on Google-Maps. There is a post-office in South Charleston but the building looks too small for a distribution center.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Russian bees aren't for everyone but they worked out great for me. Fantastic overwintering on a fraction of the honey that other bees need. Great wax and honey production. Most impressive is the disease resistance. After several years Im not sure how much of the original genetics I have but they are doing better than any bees I ever had. I bought queens from the Russian Honeybee Breeders Association.
https://www.russianhoneybeebreeders.org/

The local breeder says the same about hardiness: We had a really bad cold-snap during January here when temperatures went from +60 down into the single digits in less than 24 hours. About 50% of his Italian hives did not survive but he had no losses with the crazy Ivans. He also told me that the bees have almost cured his rheumatism…

 

[5Australorpasaures]

The local breeder said it different: »Bee careful around them, they are easily p¡ssed off, just Russians…«
Maybe i should buy some Vodka for them?

Then you have to deal with a bunch of drunken Russians with Vodka muscles.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

@WannaBeHillBilly

Sissonville, WV post office opens today at 8:30 am. Get down there!