[fanfan]

Sign you up?

LOL, no, I wasn’t offering to run it.
I have the Canada ping list already.

How about you?
You raise bees.
It would be perfect!

That is a cool picture.
What is a nuc?

[AnAmericanMother]

I couldn't possibly! Don't have time -- at least not until the dog trial season is over.

A 'nuc' or nucleus is a mini-sized box (that's the little gray box to the right side of the picture) containing 3-4 frames (what my husband has in his hand). It's a slightly more expensive (but more reliable) way to purchase bees, instead of loose in a box with a queen in her own little separate box. The bees have comb and the queen starts laying while in the nuc, so you simply transfer the combs to the middle of a full size (9 frame) hive body (that's what's sitting to the left of the hive table) and fill out the sides with empty frames and foundation. The bees get right to work (the idea is to save time before your spring honeyflow comes in.)