bakerjw
05-22-2021, 10:25 PM
So a week ago, I put out a pair of swarm traps under a pair of 10 frame supers. Bee hive stuff.
Lo and behold, on Wednesday a swarm of a few thousand+ bees decided to take up residence in one of them. The last 16 months have really sucked all around so this was a rare victory.
Tonight I had to move the swarm trap from the high brick pillar that it was on to the eventual hive location and earlier I spent some time watching the little workers flying into and out of their new home. They fly right past the yard of white clover that we've not mowed just for them to places unknown. I've read where bees can fly from 2 to 8 miles from their hives.
Seeing some of them arrive back home with huge bundles of pollen on their back legs was so cool. I am sure that they are building comb and hopefully enough so that the queen is starting to lay new larvae.
All of the cares of the world don't matter one bit to a bee colony. They just work and do what they've done for ages. I can stand a couple of feet from the hive and they leave me be to enjoy them.
Sometimes it is the simple things.
Until I pulled some wood out of a pile where there is a yellow jacket nest. Now how in the world do they see well enough in the dark to sting you???
Lo and behold, on Wednesday a swarm of a few thousand+ bees decided to take up residence in one of them. The last 16 months have really sucked all around so this was a rare victory.
Tonight I had to move the swarm trap from the high brick pillar that it was on to the eventual hive location and earlier I spent some time watching the little workers flying into and out of their new home. They fly right past the yard of white clover that we've not mowed just for them to places unknown. I've read where bees can fly from 2 to 8 miles from their hives.
Seeing some of them arrive back home with huge bundles of pollen on their back legs was so cool. I am sure that they are building comb and hopefully enough so that the queen is starting to lay new larvae.
All of the cares of the world don't matter one bit to a bee colony. They just work and do what they've done for ages. I can stand a couple of feet from the hive and they leave me be to enjoy them.
Sometimes it is the simple things.
Until I pulled some wood out of a pile where there is a yellow jacket nest. Now how in the world do they see well enough in the dark to sting you???