Beginner Beekeeping Ep 6 - Installing a Nuc in your hive

A Nuc, short for Nucleus, is a small bee colony with a queen and a few thousand bees. A beekeeper can make a Nuc by splitting an existing hive in spring. When Starting your Flow Hive, purchasing a Nuc is a great way to get a quickly established brood nest.
In episode 6 of the beginner beekeeping series, Lousie and Flow Hive​ filmmaker Mirabai, install a Nuc into a Flow brood box.

Disclaimer: Beekeeping requires specialist skills, carries inherent dangers, and is often subject to regulation. It is your responsibility, prior to placing bees in your hive and on an ongoing basis, to comply with all applicable laws, regulations and codes of practice in your area, and acquire the skills and knowledge necessary for healthy, safe beekeeping. Instructional content we provide is intended as a general guide only and may not be applicable to your specific circumstances. If in doubt, seek assistance from your local authority, a professional beekeeping service or your nearest beekeeping association.

[shaofuchang]

Nuc's are adorable little families with four or five frames and is a great way to dive into beekeeping without having to buying a queen and workers separately. Just don't make the mistake of leaving a Nuc in its shipping box for too long. you'll have random drawn combs and find everything impossibly stuck with propolis. Smoke is weird... it um, breaks their communication and there's brief confusion inside. But puff too much smoke and they become immune to it. Just right and they'll go back in when you open the lid but they'll sit right on the edge and look at you. Its very cute when that happens.

[DebiRose]

I’ve been doing the course, and have my Flow hive. Tonight I collected my first nuc. It’s sitting out there in the paddock right now. I am so looking forward to tomorrow when I can finally meet my girls and their Queen Bea.

[jackspring]

Great to see the girls enjoying their new home: and I hope they don't take any nonsense from those misogynist drones.

[theurbanpropagation]

AWESOME! Just waiting on the remaining 2 of the Flow Hive 2+ Box deliveries and then Ordering bees from the basin backyard getting a nuc hopefully. So Excited to be doing this.. and a little bit nervous! :D

[laihoa]

I kinda guess why some people, especially experienced beekeepers, are so negative towards the Flow Hive, because maybe they think that the Flow Hive marketing team is turning such a hardworking "not-everyone-can-do-it" job like beekeeping into such a simple, easy thing. Honestly, if not for the flow hive marketing, I would be immediately shunned off by the traditional beekeeping methods (yes, the invasive honey harvest). At least, they got me interested in actually keeping some bees, not for the honey, but for the sake of their importance to our survival. So, idk, shouldn't we just appreciate what flow hive has done and accept that there will always be people who will give up on beekeeping because it is not what they expected regardless of flow hive's presence?

[MrAdrianaangel]

Or you can do what they are doing in Oregon..putting a bucket in a tree with honey and lemongrass oil...the wild bees smell it and move on in. When they have built combs inside, you carry the bucket home and pour them into an empty hive.

[mikejh]

Good video, just a little uneasy when she said in a few weeks it would be ready for the flow hive? Wouldn't you wait untill the bottom box is almost full on each frame before adding a super?

[crogg]

I already have foundation on a lot of my frames. Can I just add a couple of them to the brood box the same as you did with the foundationless ones?

[lozzamaphone]

I get my first Nuc in September and comes with training but I’d like to be prepared early.

The training finishes at 2pm and then I have an hr drive home. I know it’s suggested to move at night when do I transfer them into their hive?

Thanks

[AnantaPratama]

I have a nuc in an old broodbox from local beekeeper. it's already three months.. I want to move them into my new Flowhive brood box. but today after inspection.. here the bad news.. I can't find the Queen bee.. (I recheck it again and again till I'm sure..)

What should I do now?

Please Help

[HPSWildlifeSquad]

Hi there, just wondering after you put the inner cover on, do you cover up the little hole at the top or put the Queen Excluder on or just leave it?

[gerocorbo]

Thank you so much!! Where i can find all of hive size 10 and 8 frame boxes?

[RVHomeschool]

Do you cover the circular hole in the center of the cover like Michael did on the package bee installation video?

[Zero]

Hi I have question for you. Do the Bee's protect them selves agent termites?
I live in the Caribbean, and we have a lot of termites so it will be good to know.

[atlyvwire]

Can't get enough Bee Vids. *I noticed no supplement when you closed them up. (Pollen Cake or Sugar) Is this a 1/2 do and 1/2 don't supplement the new bees when you transfer a NUC?* I am getting my first NUC this year and want to do it right. taking some classes later as well at our local association.

[tijnnouwen]

What wil happen when my bees store pollen in the super wil it stil work?
And how do you clean out the honey from the fow channels where the bees cant get to ? If it ferments your whole colony may leave the hive.

[elyanebrightlight]

This is such good timing, we're getting our bees tonight! My question: can I leave them locked up tonight until I'm ready to transfer tomorrow morning?

[Jacobyl]

when would be the best time to connect the frames(where the honey goes) to the brood(where the bees live)?

[shadowsruss]

I'm about to install a nuc, but didn't quite get the bit about the screened bottom board: why is it important to not let them in through the bottom?

[jeffhardin]

After placing the nuc into the hive, how long do you wait till you pull the cardboard off the screen bottom?