Today marks the first time one of my girls tried to sting me! Fortunately she missed my thumb and instead stung the underside of my thumbnail. I saw her sting, struggle to get away, her guts came out (!) and then I flicked her off into the grass. Whew!! (On the left is the guts and the stinger that almost got me, sitting on a piece of Styrofoam. On the right is a different dead bee.)
I saw approximately ten hive beetles in the outer cover and squished those. No queen today. I have to think about how much building out they've been doing. A notebook out there would be handy. I also need to figure out how to clean the frames. Lots and lots of really red propolis, heavy burr comb on the underside of the older frames. I also saw some weird looking larvae; I'm hoping they were in the process of being capped. That's the summary - how terribly scientific!
Laurie and I are meeting tonight with a potential carpooler for next year. Wish us luck!
1 comment:
Well, the nerve! You just want to poke around in someone's house and they get all mad on ya. The AUDACITY!
I wanted to see a pic of the real dead bee, not some stand in. What kinda blog is this? :)
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