Honey Bees

Hi All

I have no cards this week, there is a really good reason for this but I'm not telling yet....lol

So I thought I'd share some photos of my hubby and his bees he had 2 hives.

 It was time to replace the Queen, she arrives in this little case with lots of air holes and about six aides, she needs theme to feed her and there is candy inside which they eat through and that will allow them to enter the their new home, if you can see the white spot that's the Queen.

She has a spot for two reasons really, firstly there is  different colour for each year and secondly there is only a couple of millimeters in size between her and the other bees, so she is very difficult to see.

The sad part is that he had to kill the old Queen 24 hours before he could introduce the new Queen.

The really sad part though was that on the second hive when he went to introduce the new Queen all the bees had died, we have no idea why but he was quite upset.

Thanks for your visit.

Honey Bees

Well Andrew and I have entered into the fascinating world of honey bees, we have been going to bee club for a few months now and have just got our first hive well it’s a nuc really with a small colony of bees, which we are hoping to see through the winter months.

If you watch closely you can see what colour pollen they have collected in their pollen baskets which are on the back legs, Andrew was watching today and it was orange.

Catch ya later!

Ali