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| Two Packages of Bees |
Today the packaged bees arrived. Italian honeybees. I installed them in the two beehives. To each colony, I provided a quart of 1:1 cane sugar:water, and a patty of pollen substitute from Ruhl Bee Supply in Gladstone.
Now it's time to leave them alone, except checking on the queen in a few days and checking on the food supply.
At the bee supply store they had large packets of bee flower seeds. From those, I think I'm on the right track. Borage, Phaselia, and others. I picked up a packet of
Limnanthes douglasii. Give it a try. Yesterday at Lowes for deer fencing, I picked up a couple of Veronica plants in bloom, also for the honeybees.
