Becca’s bees

April 6:  boxed_bees_getting_sprayed_to_chill_out

setting_up_the_hives

frames_on_which_bees_ought_build_honeycombs

smiling_for_camera

workers_and_their_queens_who_will_need_to_eat_their_way_out_of_little_boxes_we_hope

closeup_of_one_of_the_queens_and_her_attendants

getting_dressed_up_to_meet_the_bees

letting_the_worker_bees_loose

a_friendly_bee_and_her_keeper

filling_the_feeding_trough_with_sugar_water

ta_da!

first bee out of the hive

April 13:  one_week_later_-_time_to_see_how_they_are_doing

firing_up_the_smokepot

checking_the_frames_in_the_first_hive

hopefully_one_of_these_is_the_queen

the_bees_had_made_this_honeycomb_from_scratch_in_the_top_of_the_box_rather_than_the_frames

really_beautiful_even_though_we_had_to_take_it_out

checking_the_second_hive_in_a_cloud_of_bees

bee_closeup_taken_by_new_photographer_after_the_first_one_got_stung

inside_the_hive

trying_to_get_back_in_the_front_door

checking_more_frames

checking_more_frames_2

checking_more_frames_3

still_a_few_excited_bees

OK_now_everyone_back_in_the_box

April 22:  checkup after 2 weeks

now they are building their honeycombs on the frames, and one hive has an active queen making new bees