Yesterday I did move a frame almost full of capped brood, honey, pollen, and bees into the 'empty' hive.
This morning there were guard bees doing their thing and really checking over any bee that showed up, there was robbing yesterday from the feeder dripping and running out the entrance but nothing serious. I reduced the entrance to make guarding easier and noticed some pollen coming in which was surprising.
The video of bee activity post was interrupted by a lot of bee activity so I made a new video.
Saw lots of pollen going in, or trying to with the traffic jam there. I looked at the feeder earlier and they have hardly touched it today so I guess they have the hive back in order now after 6 days.
While reviewing a couple of hours of video from today, I did see some bees leave and the same or others come back. Maybe the new sign above the entrance is helping or it's just nurse bees assigned to foraging so they don't have a clue where home is and actually pay attention to the entrance.
Without many (any?) foragers the bees in the upper split seem thirsty. It's surprising how fast they all show up once one of them finds water on the landing board. I had been dribbling some on there but found a little cap that fit.
I made a little landing board for the double screened divider. Then after reviewing an hour of video where many bees left with whatever they were carrying to clean the hive, only one bee returned.. so I made a little robbing screen as an obstacle so maybe they'd re-orientate, or just not fly off with the dead drones. That seems to have worked.
They seem to be getting rid of drones, which is good because that's more room for worker brood.
I thought I had lost one hive but today discovered all 4 of my hives are alive. The one I thought didn't make it has a mouse in the bottom, the bees have moved up under the lid. My next bee task will be fashioning mouse guards for all the entrances. I fed them all good quality pollen patties today, and did another O. A. treatment. 2 of the 4 are very strong, 2 weaker but hanging in there. Considering the absolute clown weather we've had, I am very encouraged.
First game in the books for #BoardGame day. Taught Linds how to play #Apiary and surprise, she won! Of course! She throttled me so bad I don't even want to post the score. So here is a pretty picture instead.
Today is #BoardGame day for my wife and I. Every few months we schedule a Saturday for us to play and to put aside all of the normal weekend responsibilities. It's really sweet bc I know she doesn't really care to play but it's mostly for me.
Happy Monday, all! If you find yourself bored at work, take 3 minutes out of your day to explore the world of Space Bees in Stonemaier Games' #Apiary
You can watch our BURST video to get a quick insight into how the game plays and hopefully help you decide if Apiary's brand of worker placement is right for you.
Ever want to be a part of an intergalactic colony of space bees, collecting resources, and building your hive? Or maybe you just like worker placement #BoardGames
As usual, there are two versions. The BURST video is a 3 minute overview of the game, while the full video dives into the nitty gritty of the solo variant. Enjoy!
Another fun #solo game of #Apiary though I lost by a handful of points. The Queens Favor track was sort of ignored this game, which might have hurt some, but I did a lot more planting of seeds and buying developments. My starter hex only gave me two workers to start the game so that was a little challenging as well.
Played my second game of solo #Apiary and had a much better grasp this time, even winning by 12 points.
I was able to get a farm tile that let me score three Queens Favor every time I got income, so this helped a ton as I maxed this track out for 25 points. That combatted the AI's four Carving tiles nicely.
I'm including pics of my completed hive, as well as the QueenShip miniature that is used to explore planets.
Thoughts on my first play of #Apiary. Reminder I've only played it solo.
The place/retrieve mechanism is implemented in a way I haven't seen in other games in my collection. Typically in worker placement you get your workers back once you run out. In Apiary when you retrieve workers, they "level up." I definitely handled this wrong and will need to retrieve more often in future
Bumping workers as well as the actions where you add your value to already played workers is very cool
All in all, it was a fun learning experience. Looking forward to trying again tonight or tomorrow and having a smoother play. There's a lot to unlock here. Even if people have a lot of worker placement games, at first look, #Apiary does enough things different to warrant a more thorough look. This might change with more plays but we will see.