Let's Hive Some Bees!

Matt went to pick up our package of bees while I was at work on Saturday morning. When he got home he had a small box full of aproximately 10,000 bees. I have never seen such a thing. They were all clustering around the queen (who was in her own little personal box).

We got ready to hive the bees; filling the feeder, and preparing the hive. Matt decided to go with wearing the veil on his head even though he thought it would be "more bad-ass" not to wear it. Here you can see the screen bottom board.

Matt took out two frames so that he could shake the bees into the hive. You can see what a frame looks like here. The bees will be busy building wax comb on the frames where the queen can lay eggs and they can store pollen and honey.  

Ok, here are 3 videos of hiving the bees:

Matt Hives the Queen Bee

Matt Hives the Worker Bees

Ethel had to watch from inside the house.

Matt dumped as many bees as he could into the hive, then closed it up.

He set the little box near the hive so the rest of the bees could climb into the hive.