Painted Cave bee rescue

Painted Cave bee rescue

Piet was in town and we spent the morning extracting bees from a house up on Painted Cave Road. The honey was super dark, almost looks like avocado honey, yuummm! Thanks to Karen for the bees and for snapping most of the photos. The bees are happily buzzing around...
bees are doing well!

bees are doing well!

I opened up the hive today for the first time since catching the swarm and moving them into their new home 2 weeks ago. They’ve been busy and have drawn comb on 3 of the frames and have a good looking brood coming along. I also saw lots of pollen and honey so...