Setting out queen mating nucs |
Checking a new queen in a mating nuc. See the capped brood on the mini frames. Mating successful |
Truck full of mating nucs. Olivarez Honey Bees put out 30,000 queen mating nucs out. Each queen that comes in a package is produced in one of these nucs. |
Shaking bees off of frames into a shaker box. The shaker box is then poured into 2 or 3 lb package bee cages and a new queen is then added with the bees |