Like I don’t have enough hobbies and animals to take care of, I decided I must try to do my part and save the honey bee too. 🙂 Due to pesticides and other things we are losing honey bee colonies at an alarming rate and without them, who will pollinate a great deal of our food?
I started on this crusade last Autumn. Joined my community Beekeeper’s Association and then attended day long classes to learn more. I also found a mentor at the Beekeeper’s meetings who has been a blessing, so much to learn.
Students at the beekeeping class were encouraged to not wear gloves when working the bees. 🙂 This takes nerves of steel at first but then you find it not so bad. It slows you down witch helps the bees not to be nerves.
No, this is not an alien, it’s me all geared up at class. 🙂 Crazy Right?
I spent the Winter pouring over Beekeeping catalogs, yes there is such a thing, and I purchased my hives and other necessary tools and protective clothing.
Well Spring finally arrived and it’s time to start new colonies. These are my hives right after I installed a 3 pound package of bees in each one. Just envision that. Now, just how many bees do you think that is? Well, it is around 9,000 bees per hive! That’s just to start the colonies.
I was quite nervous, but pulled my big girl panties up and put all those bees in the hives by myself. I’ve been asked if I filmed this process, HECK NO! I had to put every bit of my brain power into what I was doing. Remember this was my first time.
You might want to know why there are different colors on my hives, well, bees see color and it helps them distinguish which hive is theirs. They don’t see red, orange and purple as true colors they see them as black so I chose So Saffron and Pear Pizzazz (it’s a sickness to see all colors as Stampin’ Up! colors) to paint a couple of my hive boxes in. You really don’t want your bees bouncing from one hive to another so they don’t spread viruses, mites, etc. from one colony to another.
I am happy to report the bees are doing well so far. Hopefully we will see lots of bee babies soon as the colonies grow.
Wishing you a beautiful and productive day!
Huge Hugs,
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