Today’s blog is written by my husband-and-beekeeper-companion Dave. He also took all these photos, and in a few days we hope to post a video as well.
April 23 ends up being “Bee Day.” Got a call this morning that our bees have arrived from California. We made a short trip to Spring Valley Honey outside of Perry, to pick up our special deliveries.
The garden house is ready and we have three 2-pound boxes of bees (about 30,000 ladies) resting for installation this afternoon. The hives have been cleaned, re-painted, sorted, frames re-distributed, boxes re-level and are airing out.
In the photos below, you can see the 3 boxes and the aluminum tab that hangs the queen cage inside the box. Now all we have to do is take out the queen cage, add a marshmallow plug, hang her in the hive, and pour in the bees – just like water!
Then we will close up the hive and leave them alone for a few days, when we check to make sure that the queen was released by the worker bees.
Yes, April 23 is Bee Day for us!
And, this Bee Lady adds, a beautiful day!
Bee Lady Honey 