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.



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.



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.



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



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

Hiving the Bees

Yesterday was the big day! The bees came on Saturday and they were in their little box. Last night we finished painting the hive and put them into it. It was exciting and scary! We only had one veil (the funny looking hat beekeepers wear) and wore it. The hubby was very brave but also got stung on the back of his head. Poor thing.

Here he is shaking the bees out of their box into the hive.



Here is the queen in her cage.



Here they are all in the hive.



Here is a video of them being shook into the hive.

New Adventure

So the hubby has decided to start a new adventure! I am excited but at the same time very nervous about this one. He bought a hive and next week our bees will come so he can be a backyard beekeeper! Now to be honest, I am pretty afraid of bees but everyone says that honey bees are quite docile. So we'll see.

I read an entire book called Beekeeping for Dummies this week. I think they are fascinating creatures. But that still doesn't make me want to stick my bare hand down into their hive. I am excited about the honey. I am also excited about the wax and that the hubby wants a hobby! So, here we go again. Pretty soon we are going to have to move to a farm.

(here's the hubby in his sexy beekeeping hat thing)