Thursday, April 24, 2008

Bees, Bees and More Bees!!!

Here are some pictures of us and things that we did to get ready for and then hive our bees.


Daddy and I assembling the frames for the hive.


Look at those bees!!!

The Big Day

Getting ready to hive.


Daddy, Sabrina and I


Sayer Stonewall


Here come the bees!!!


Daddy and I ready to hive.


Making sure we understand what to do before setting to work.


Opening up the bees.


The cats wanted to be in on the action.


Spraying the bees down with sugar syrup one last time.


Pouring the bees into the hive. This was an amazing experience!!! The bees were a lot more active than we had planned on!


Putting the frames into the hive.


The curious onlookers.


Sabrina was our helpful instructor, reading us the instructions from my bee book.


Attempting to dump the last of the bees out of the package into the hive.


Putting the hive back together.


Closing it up.


After the hiving was over.


Getting the last of the bees brushed off.

1 comment:

Sara said...

Good luck on your bee-keeping endeavors!:-)
Love,
Sara~