Adventures in Beekeeping; Picking up my package honeybees

This morning, at 8:00 a.m.

I was at Miller Bees, picking  up my package honeybees.

Do you see that? It’s an actual beehive!

There were 300 package honeybees set out in a large garage; Italians and Russians. I picked up my two orders of package honeybees and off we went. There were about 10 honeybees on the outside of the wire cage, but I told my daughter we’d be fine. They weren’t aggressive and they were trying to surround the queen.

The queen is new to these bees and so she’s in a tiny cage within the crate. If you want to read the story behind the above photo, go here, in that post I write about last years installation of my the package bees that were installed into a Warre hive. Last year, I was a first time beekeeper.

It was a chilly morning, so these bees weren’t quietly moving about like the bees last year. They were in a tight huddle.

This morning, I believe it’s too chilly to move them into their new home. I’ll wait until early evening to move them into their new home. Here’s hoping they stay!