Here's some things you should know about bees:
They are all female, but only one queen
They can travel up to 20 miles to collect pollen to make honey
They are VERY clean bugs
They many different types of bees
During the winter, they huddle in a circle to keep warm and slowly work their way in and out of the circle to stay warm.
I'm sure there's more, but I thought that was cool!
Oh, they are different types of honey depending on where the bees go to collect the pollen
Here on some pictures of what it takes to get the bees in their new homes!
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| the bees |
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| up close and personal |
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| notice the dead ones? That happens on the trip... they die to make sure the queen survives! |
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| Two 3 # boxes ( about 15,000 bees per box) |
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| The bees new home! |
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| Getting ready to let them out! |
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| unlocking the top |
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| The queen (they keep her in a separate box so the other bees get to know before they decide they might kill her) |
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| Dropping the queen in |
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| "dumping" the bees out |
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| See them falling out |
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| still trying to get them out |
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| "knocking" them out
This is when the bees started to go exploring and looking for me! 9 landed on me and I started freaking out! It's hard not to freak out when they are buzzing all over your ear ( I actually had a dream last night that one went in my ear, which is NOT unheard of!). Steve stopped what he was doing and came to my rescue and brushed them off of me.
During all of his years as a bee keeper he has only been stung once. The bees are doing REALLY good! They have already started to draw out the wax in their hives and started getting things ready for the little ones to be laid and put in their little homes until they get big!
Again, here is to a great year with LOTS of honey!
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1 comment:
My fingers are crosses too.
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