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When you get a starter colony from Melitta Bees, put the bars in the hive 48 hours before adding the bees. They'll coat the bars with propolis, making the hive smell established and familiar, so the colony accepts it better.
When you get a starter colony from Melitta Bees, put the bars in the hive 48 hours before adding the bees. They'll coat the bars with propolis, making the hive smell established and familiar, so the colony accepts it better.
So this here is a starter colony from Melitta Bees. Little tip they gave as well is these are the bars that they use, and they like to put them in 48 hours before, get the bees to kind of propolize them down. You can see, look how old and propolized they are. So it's much, much better for acceptance.
