A golden humming cloud of honeybees arrived unexpectedly one sunny June morning and moved into a knothole in the siding of the house. Three weeks later, Mr. E. helped these mysterious creatures into a comfy wooden box in his garden and began to live the lifelong dream of herding millions of stinging insects and collecting their sweet honey. Please enjoy the adventures of Mr. E's Mysterious Bees.





July 27, 2011

larvae spotted in Big Hive

Well, the good news is that we found larvae in the brood boxes of the Big Hive today.  We are not sure if it is new larvae from the recently freed queen (the one trapped in the honey supers for who knows how long) or if it is drone larvae from the laying worker we kicked out.  Once it is capped we will be able to tell since the drone larvae sticks out a lot more than the flat sandy colored capped worker brood. 
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