Bee Update
May. 11th, 2011 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
multipurposegoddessI have picked up the second hive body. I need to paint it, which may take a couple of days, mostly drying time, then the bees will have double the living space. Nice.
I think they are ignoring the sugar syrup, which they are supposed to do when there is sufficient nectar for their needs (nectar being tastier, I suppose). So that's good. I'll probably leave the feeder on for a while just in case, I don't think there's any harm in that. I still need to retrieve the queen cage and check for brood - tomorrow should be a good day for that. Just observing them coming and going, there's a lot of traffic and definitely some bees coming home carrying gobs of pollen.
Worms are doing well, so far as I can tell. There continue to be live worms, which is really all I am checking at this point.
Mom and I visited the Western Railway Museum (before heading up to Bee Supply) for her belated Mother's Day gift of a ride on the Scenic Limited. Very pleasant! Nice scenery, lemonade and cookies, and I just like trains. They have a HUGE inventory of train related books including many on small lines and city transportation systems (and not just nearby cities, I noticed Chicago and Arkansas in my browsing). A good resource if any of that information should be needed, I bet. And I didn't even look at the library, that was just the gift shop.
I could have sworn I had another thought to mention, but it seems to have fled. Oh well.
I think they are ignoring the sugar syrup, which they are supposed to do when there is sufficient nectar for their needs (nectar being tastier, I suppose). So that's good. I'll probably leave the feeder on for a while just in case, I don't think there's any harm in that. I still need to retrieve the queen cage and check for brood - tomorrow should be a good day for that. Just observing them coming and going, there's a lot of traffic and definitely some bees coming home carrying gobs of pollen.
Worms are doing well, so far as I can tell. There continue to be live worms, which is really all I am checking at this point.
Mom and I visited the Western Railway Museum (before heading up to Bee Supply) for her belated Mother's Day gift of a ride on the Scenic Limited. Very pleasant! Nice scenery, lemonade and cookies, and I just like trains. They have a HUGE inventory of train related books including many on small lines and city transportation systems (and not just nearby cities, I noticed Chicago and Arkansas in my browsing). A good resource if any of that information should be needed, I bet. And I didn't even look at the library, that was just the gift shop.
I could have sworn I had another thought to mention, but it seems to have fled. Oh well.