HOW TO INSTALL A PACKAGE OF BEES INTO A GOLD STAR TOP BAR HIVE

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Uploaded by on Apr 12, 2010

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This video will demonstrate how to install a package of honey bees into a Gold Star Top Bar Hive. Includes helpful tips regarding equipment and ways to make the process smoother for you and your bees.

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  • Nice explanation/description!! Thank you!!

  • @chickenbonewatt You're very welcome! Glad to be a part of your beekeeping journey!

  • Thanks budoonk!

  • In this case, the plug was a simple metal disc stapled to the cage, and covering the sugar candy that plugged the exit hole. We bent it back & used it to attach the queen cage to the top bar. The candy plug, i.e., sugar barrier, creates a "time-release" situation - the bees cannot physically get to the queen until the candy is eaten and she is released - so it allows time for them to accept or "bond" with her pheromone.

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  • nice job on the video

  • good demo and explanation..

  • Great step by step! Would like to see the smaller parts of the queen cage a little closer though. I couldn't tell how you took the plug out. Also a mention perhaps as to why there is an initial sugar barrier between the queen and the rest of the colony.

  • Christy, I love your clips, thank you.

    Informative, step, by step you're Mag!

  • very nice thank you

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