Giving Bees Another Try

After all of our bees took their honey and evacuated the beautiful beehives that we built for them last spring, we were dumbfounded. 

It kind of felt like we were abandoned by head-strong teens and made reference to the “ungrateful bees” for not appreciating all of the hard work we put into building their hives, maintaining their food and water, and just taking care of them!  But after 8 months, we cleaned the old hives, built new ones, and installed 10,000 bees last week. 

By “we,” I mean Rob and John put on their bee suits and transferred the bees from the travel box to our hives. 

Meanwhile, Julie and I built the steps down to the hives and watched at a safe distance. 

This time around, we were all more comfortable with the bees.