This morning our phone rang at 8:30 am. It was the Post Office asking that MrLivingOurWay come pick up our bees. They were eager to get rid of them. We really weren't expecting them for a few more days so MrLivingOurWay hurried over there. Plans were changed and most of our day has been dealing with bees.
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Here you can see one of the bees has already escaped.
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Here is a view of the bee's in the box that they came in.
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| A close up of the bees. At the time, MrLivingOurWay had just painted a sugar solution over the wire and you could see the bees sticking their tongues out to eat it. |
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MrLivingOurWay painting hives because we still weren't ready for them!
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| MrLivingOurWay and I in our bee suits getting ready to install the bees into their hives. I feel like an astronaut |
This afternoon we took the bees back to the area MrLivingOurWay cleared out for them and successfully (we hope!) installed the bees in their hive. The
Indian Italian
bees are known to be calm and the Russian bees not as calm. For us the
Indian Italian ones were quite aggrivated but we think one might have gotten squashed in the process.
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Indian or do you mean Italian? Bees are great fun...I love mine.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct! I walked around all day calling them the wrong thing and MrLivingOurWay didn't correct me! I will fix that. Thank you.
DeleteWow, you look like professionals already. I am still trying to figure out if I can capture the wild bees that moved into our out building. I don't use a lot of honey but I like bees and would use more honey if I didn't have to pay so much for it.
ReplyDeleteI assume you are referring to our bee attire. The suits do look nice don't they? MrLivingOurWay actually helped his dad out with bees when he was a teen so he was a real pro at getting them set up. He didn't even stop to think about what he was doing. It seemed to come natural to him.
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