| In the beginning of 1998 I to spent some time with a friend beekeeper in Chile. This resulted as usual in some pictures. We are 50 km south of Santiago in a small village called Isla de Maipo. |
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Here we are working bees in a vineyard where most of his hives were placed. |
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In some places there were small ants making it nessesary to use stands. |
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The home apiary where we tried some Royal Jelly production. |
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Enrique is grafting, sitting in the shade of the old willow tree. |
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Transfering the larvae to cell cups with a grafting needle. |
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The starter box. Made from a 5 frame nuc box with a mesh in the bottom to supply ventilation. |
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Bees have started the cells after a night in the starter box. |
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And the frame with cells go into the queenright finisher hive above excluder. The bees will treat them like swarm cells and finish them properly. |