My bees came today!!! I tried to have everything ready for them - hive assembled, equipment ready, food made (because there are no flowers here yet, I made them some sugar syrup in chamomile tea to tide them over). But when I went to hive them .... I dunno. Maybe they were pissed off or hungry or hot or something but it did not go like the video I watched at beeweaver.com. I took the lid off and a lot of bees came right out. By a lot, I mean like a zillion. They didn't wait to be poured on queen or anything. The got all over everything. The hive, the food can, the knife i used to open the box, me! and the frames I had taken out of the hive. I kept brushing them off the queen cage so I could take the plug out but they kept right back on landing on her. Eventually, and with the right loving intention that the biodynamic bee keepeing book says bees like, I just brushed as many off as I could and put the box in the hive and put the hive back together and got out of there. I hope not too many got squished. When I got to the other side of the garden I brushed the bees that were still on the equipment onto the grass.
I'll go back in 2 days and see how its going for them.
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