Happy Harvest Blog
MY FIRST SWARM!
It seemed to go pretty well. I was getting bees into the box. Only thing, they seemed to want to come out of the box. It was like a really slow boil over. I'd dump bees in, they'd flow back over the top of the box. I'd scoop them back in with my hands.
Proved: honeybees can sting and NOT die
She would pause and tug and rub with her feet, and then run some more. She made somewhere around three dozen revolutions around her stinger. I couldn't believe I was watching a bee unscrew herself from the top of my foot.
The bees are thriving
H.W. has been watching them every day, and reporting that the bees HATE the "door" (the entrance limiting stick). We've been having warm days, and the inbound flights start bottlenecking at the entrance mid-morning. Then he pulls out the stick and "the bees BOIL out!". It takes a few minutes to rebalance, like traffic after an accident is cleared. Then the bees come shooting in and out like a time lapse video of La Guardia at 16x
Bee sculpture
Thing is, the bees have not recycled all the wax. The rest of it, they have made into sculpture. They aren't using this comb for anything, and it's intricately molded and shaped - changed to resemble some fantastic art-deco architecture. Amazing!
Two Bee Stings
Two bee stings in three days. That's about average for a summer. I can be done now.(Not my honeybees. Bumblebee and some wild bee that helped me discover their underground hive in the field.)
Ground bees
Look closely in a hole, and you could see a little bee butt or bee head, and if you waited, you might see another bee come in for a light hovering landing and then slip down the hole, or one come up and push out a grain of dirt.
The Fuck You Bee
What amused me most is the way no one at all mentioned it at all when we went doing about 15 errands that next day, even I looked like an early victim of the zombie apocalypse. Not one single comment.
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