Changes, Changes
Well, August is here and we have updates! Days after my last update, we got a call from Mr. T. He had been walking through the yard and noticed something out of the corner of his eye. One of our hives swarmed. This doesn't mean they flew at someone in an angry cloud like we used to see in cartoons. It means they had made a new queen and half of the hive left with her...and they were temporarily in this tree: Photo Courtesy Mr. T. Bees are not aggressive in this state since they don't have a hive to protect anymore, but this was not good news. There are ways to collect a swarm and re-hive it, and some beekeepers get all their bees this way, but this was a difficult location, a difficult time of day, and an unlikely success. The bees normally move on quickly to a home in the wild, and they did move on just a hour or so before we were able to get there. Although we like to look at this in a positive way, that we helped contribute a new hive to the wi...