Bees in the Antipodes: Hives

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Hives

Bee hives my daughter, Meg, painted in one of her latest paintings - she is not sure why !

2 comments:

Doris said...: Love those!; January 25, 2011 at 7:08 AM
Comfrey Cottages said...: totally wonderful:) it just came to her to paint them? nice! xx; January 25, 2011 at 4:16 PM

Bees on board at last !!

I set my first hive, Miro, up at the back of my friends house at the beginning of Oct 2006. Looking fantastic with the swarm my beekeeper friend gave me, in the brand new brood box and spare on top, I am one proud beekeeper at last. One month later, they swarmed !!! Not enough room was diagnosed and a smaller half-depth box put on . Luckily the little darlings had only swarmed over the fence into the grapefruit tree. Captured and I have 2 hives - both doing very well, so well in fact that I have put a 3/4 box on both hives over the last 2 weeks. At last the necter flow is happening - lots of pollen also being brought into both Miro and Matai.