Yet Another Day in the Life

[emo_snal]

   As a sort of epilogue on that last story, about the ogre neighbors who were obstructing my attempts to help a nice old man, apparently they called the next day to say they did not consent to the bee colony being removed from their shed wall. I should have just done it, they'd never see it on that side anyway

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[missfuzzybunny]

Much more fruitful day than the ogre day.

Sometime I'd like to see photos of how you find the queen.

[emo_snal]

Well how's this video:

(:

[magenta_girl]

What a great story! The video was neat. The musical interlude of the phone ring made me laugh.

[emo_snal]

Haha yeah its funny (:

[emo_snal]

Me too. I was very glad to have a good home for these bees they seemed very very nice.

[technophobe1975]

That video was so cool, it is as if they knew you were trying to help them :)

[emo_snal]

Its so fun when they're that nice, that you can pick up handfuls of them and move them around. sooo much better than angry pissy bees that don't want to have anything to do with a person.

[fimbrethil]

We have nice bees at the Botanical Garden where I work. I noticed while touring a class the other day that one of the side doors on our observation hive was open. I got permission to close it because it was chilly that morning. The previous night we had had a lot of rain and the felt insulation between the plexiglass and the hinged door seemed to have swelled with water. The magnet on the door would not connect to the hive as a result. The bees were out and about that morning and I did jostle the hive slightly as I tried to latch the door but other than give me a cursory fly by, none of them bothered me.

I' m glad you were able to rehome the swarm.

[emo_snal]

Do you have any pictures of this observation hive?

[fimbrethil]

I don't but I can make that happen. However, if you look at www.queensbotanical.org/garden_collections/gardens/BeeGarden there are pictures of the bee garden. Our teaching or obsevation hive is the one with the flowers painted on it. Our beekeeper is standing next to it but the doors that cover the plexiglass windows are not attached in that shot.

[emo_snal]

Ah I see, so its a regular hive with windows. Our observation hive that I mentioned we had trouble with is just one frame wide, and four frames tall or so, so you can see every bee in it, but they can't create a core of warmth with that width.