New Bend bees doing well...

May 2 was bee day in Sisters and Bend, OR. I picked up the 3# package of Italian bees with a Carniolan queen. The new emerging bees will be Carniolan and will replace the current workers, which are Italian, in several weeks. See past posts for bee life timelines. Package was installed in the new top bar hive on a warm morning, Saturday, May 2, and the first hive check shows a viable queen in that eggs can be seen in cells on the 4th bar and bees are returning with pollen. 1:1 syrup feeding begun immediately with shipping syrup can placed in hive, too. Will continue sugar syrup feeding until the bees do not use it.