05/03/09 – The Bees are Back in Town
Will and I picked up our bees from a beekeeper in Ludlow today. He enjoyed seeing the hundreds of packages buzzing at the pickup location.
Will kept telling me that he loved bees – even when we had the package in the car, and a couple were flying around inside, he wasn’t worried about them at all.
When we got home, Will was going to help me out with the installation of the bees, but when I told him that wearing a veil was a requisite for helping out, he decided that playing would be better than installing bees. That’s okay – Dad can fly solo with the bees. This year we got a 4 pound package of bees. After spraying them down with sugar water to make things easier, I set up the hive, and was ready to roll.
Things went very smoothly – the bees seemed to enjoy their new home, and I buttoned up the hive as the raindrops had started. We’ll give them about 5 days, and weather permitting, we’ll check them out this coming weekend to make sure that the queen has been released, and all is well in the hive.
