Hi Fredy,
May I assume you have no
experience with
bees?
Unless you can provide year round forage for them (like in the tropics) no one would get a nuc of bees that far into the season.
A nuc is usually a SMALL colony of bees, typically five frames, might be 10, unknown whether they are mediums or deeps. Usually 3 or 4 frames of brood and nectar and 1 frame of drawn comb for the queen to lay in the the workers to have someplace to store the incoming nectar.
Normally you get a nuc in early Spring so they have a long running start to get themselves to be able to overwinter. When bees are young and the nectar is flowing, that is when they exude wax to draw out the foundation so there is enough room for the queen to lay, the hive to build up in numbers and the hive to collect enough nectar and pollen to carry them through Winter.
I am not personally familiar with Winters in the Northwest, but I have heard it gets cool if not cold and rains a lot. Yes? That means no bee forage. They will not have had enough time to build up to cluster to keep warm and gather enough food to tide them over.
I would strongly recommend that you find a
local experienced bee keeper, or three, who are in alignment with how you think you want to keep bees, humanly, sustainably, treatment free, you add your adjectives and values. Ask them if they will mentor you for a year in exchange for your help BEFORE you get bees. I know master beekeepers who have 'students' who kill their bees year after year and buy new nucs or packages every Spring. Just like with a parcel of
land, observe it for a year of cycles before you start planning your
water,
earthworks etc.
Unless there are factors that I am grossly unaware of, I think getting nucs in July/Aug. is a set up for failure for the bees. Two + months is not enough time. And if you don't have any experience, perhaps get some before you get bees.
Hope this is helpful. Any beekeepers from the Northwest?