We Now Have Honey Bees!

Eddie and I went today and bought 2lbs of honey bees for our new hive. We bought these from Dixie Bee Supply in Lula, GA. These are a hybrid bee. They are mixed with Russian, Carniolan, and Italian.

Eddie getting ready to install his first package of bees. He did wonderful.

He wasn't scared one bit.

I placed the queen in the middle of the frames, and dumped the bees on top.

It was amazing to be surrounded by that many bees.

I hope they like their new home.

This is me getting ready to close the hive up. We will check on them in a couple of days to make sure that the worker bees released the queen from her cage. If not, then I will have to do it for them. We will also have to keep a close check on the sugar water that we are feeding them. They will need a lot of sugar water to start the comb on the wax foundation.