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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Bee Update - And We Screwed Up

We checked on the bees a few nights ago.
They were buzzing in and out of the hive with no problem! Little efficient workers. Female, of course.

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Then we checked the top to see if we could see anything. They were building! You can see the bright white of the new comb on a few of the bars here.
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And a close up:
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Then we lifted up the top box to see how far down the new comb went:
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Then we had this BRILLIANT idea of checking on the queen, and taking out the 'queen cage'. Great idea, in theory... pop the cage off, push it onto the next box down, take it out, check for queen. In theory.
So Ben took out the nail and it just hung there. We thought there might be a tiny bit of comb stuck to it, so he took his screwdriver and pushed it down.
Little did we know that we accidentally broke off a whole freaking comb. A big chunk.
We lifted the top box to find broken comb and some REALLY ANGRY BEES!
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They kinda swarmed out of the hive and came at us.. Ben stuck the box back down pronto, and I ran away. A bee got stuck in my hair, I freaked out and started rolling around on the ground. But nobody got stung!

So, um, yeah. We totally screwed up our fragile new hive. Hopefully they'll tear it up and try to rebuild.

Kudos,
Ket

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