Today was another day with some mixed weather. When the sun was out, the bees came out of their hives to fly a bit around or to empty themselves right onto the outer walls of the hives. | |
I took this photograph of the queen cage. While she was traveling from New Zealand, she was inside there. Because of the grid, the worker bees could get accustomed to the feromones that she exudes. When the bees are installed, a little plastic led on the left end has to be broken. When the weather is right, the workers can chew right through the sugar to make a channel as can be seen. But the weather was cold. So Bill took out much of the sugar. And when the queens did not appear to have been released, I had to go into the hives, get the queen cages, open the sugar completely without letting the queen fly away, and place the cage again into the hive. |