Well, we had a busy (as a bee!) day today. Sue and I went up to Bjorn Apiaries to pickup 2 packages of Russian hybrid bees. One for us and one for our neighbor. We now have 3 neighbors keeping bees! Forgot Tupelo Honey.....think Lewisberry Honey!!
After lunch today, Chris, Evan and Vulcan came down to help install the bees into the hive.
But, before installing the new bees, we thought we'd checkout the existing hive. Things were looking real good. Lots of comb buildout and lots of brood cells (the tan capped cells). We also spotted a lot of larvea that hadn't been capped yet. The white capped cells are honey. I was really surprised, some of the frames are starting to get heavy!
We started out the new install by having Evan carry the bees to the hive:
It was now time to get down to the real work. Installing the bees:
Since I had the help of Master Bee Keeper Evan, things went really smooth. But as you can see in the above video, bees were flying everywhere when we finished the install! Unfortunately, this is when we had a first bee casualty. Poor Vulcan, he was just standing there minding his own business............... :-(
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