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Bees!

5/12/2013

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Saturday we picked up this package of 12,000 bees with a Queen from Wilbanks Apiaries in Claxton. 

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The Queen was in a tiny separate box...here's Shanny creating a tiny opening. 

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Then we shook them out of their box....over the hive.
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Blowing smoke helps them go into their hive.

Sandor got stung once, but I didn't.  Just a few stragglers were flying around, but they really want to go into the box to be with the Queen.

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By early evening, all the bees had gone into the box!

Now, they'll get busy building up the hive.  It'll take a year before we can harvest any honey.

We'll need to add another box in a few months, because this is a small hive.

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