Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Bees 1 Week Inspection

On Monday, we opened the hive up for the first time since we put them in there. It was very exciting! We had no idea what they would look like. But everything looked good. They had a good amount of comb drawn out on 3 frames and a bit on a 4th frame. We saw some eggs, pollen and even sugar water that they had put into the cells. Here's the pictures I took:

Here is one of the frames. All the bees are clustered on the comb.

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Here are some of the bees clinging on to each other. This has a name but I can't remember what it is called but they do them when they are making comb.

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Here is an upclose picture of the comb and inside the cells you can see eggs. They look like tiny grains of rice. Sort of just to the bottom right of center there are 3 cells in a triangle that all have eggs in them.

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In this picture you can see the pollen in the cells. It is dark in color.

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Here is the 1 week inspection video. It's weird for a few seconds then it gets clear.

2 comments:

The DeMille Digest said...

I still say this is crazy...but in a very cool kind of way! It is interesting to get a inside look at "The life of Bees." It is kind of a beautiful process, isn't it? It makes you think about all the things that we take forgranted but continue to go on around us all the time; we just don't notice.

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