I had been stung while trying to add a pollen paddy in the top box. It was just a little tiny prick. I thought this will increase my resistance to the poisson. But in the evening, my hand had swollen tremendously. I took some benadril. Then next day it got worse. I took the 4 doses of benadril that the package recommends, because I had to teach. Lots of people I meet on that day are talking to me about an EpiPen. This is what my physician had recommended to my wife, just in case.
   This shows again that a Masters degree in physics and a PhD doesn't make you smart in life. I could not even remember the name EpiPen for the first few days. I didn't pay a lot of attention to it either. But so many people around me appear to know about it. Well, using Google I find out it is an auto-injector with epinephrine that is used as an emergency treatment of severe allergic reactions (anaphylaxis).
   I don't mind the little pricks. I didn't mind the 6 pricks when I got stung the first time. But the swelling does not sound well, especially when it can entail trouble breathing. This is serious. Although I didn't have a reaction that strong, I decide to buy a bee suit and gloves. That way I am protected and don't have to worry about getting stung.

This is one of the frames that Bill had lent me to get the bees startet. It had honey in before but now is completely empty. I was worried about the bottom, where the comb seems to be damaged and looked mouldy. Below there, I had found a few days earlier about 40 dead bees, some of which were mouldy themselves. But Bill wrote to me that he could not see anything wrong with the frame and comb. I left it with that.

One of the combs is completely covered with light caps, which means the bees have made honey from the sirup I have been giving them. It is one of my frames. This means that the bees have drawn all the comb, filled it with honey, and then capped the cells to have some emergency stores. There is still a while to go before the real neactar flow begins. The colonies are still small, and it is about the time that the first new bees hatch.