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I agreed to purchase some nucs from a beekeeper and he said he’d have them for me in march or april. I finally called him today asking where my bees were and he said he’d been delayed and he was just about to start making the nucs.

It’s a bit late in the season isn’t it? Will these hives still be healthy and if I feed them well how strong will they be for pollination of my almonds next February?

I live in California.

Thanks!

PART 2 treating wood Beehive boxes to prevent rot,decay. Bee hive wood pine boxes dipped in copper and beeswax coated for longer life.Help stop wood rot from water and weather or beekeeping pests like ants,wax moths and termites. Beekeepers Beekeeping equipment improvement, treatment of bee hive supplies. John Pluta, Milledgeville Georgia georgiabees.blogspot.com

A new Virgin Queen Bee running on honey comb.Georgia Beekeeper John Pluta with beehive frame & virgin Carniolan Queen bee piping to other worker bees. Queen cells just hatched out of cell building hive.Beekeeping seldom seen. Queen will go on mating flight seeking drones,return to lay eggs,which hatch into larva,then pupae. Nuc boxes with 5 frames of comb are used to raise and mate Queens here in Milledgeville

Keith Delaplane,UGA,CCD part 3, Beekeeping colony collapse disorder in american honey bee colonies. Honey Bees decline and why it matters. Israeli accute paralysis virus.Beekeepers beehives honeybees vanish without a clue.DNA,RNA University Georgia college research on bee health.Copper bee hive box treatment concern.