Hello Beepeeple!

[Bruce]

Steady, old boy - Spring is just around the corner!

 

[Maggiesdad]

7° here this morning... and another storm rolling in. Today is three brood cycles and two weeks from our main flow. Hang in there, girls!

 

[Maggiesdad]

Hey @Latestarter - once you get moved, you need to plant some of these!

 

[mikiz]

Looks like some wacky form of bee-fruit!

 

[babsbag]

OK, I have planted sunflowers but I have never seen bees on them like that. What is so special about those plants? Did someone spray them with a bee pheromone?

 

[Maggiesdad]

I guess the swarm needed to pick up some pollen on the way to the hew hive! Not mine, just a cool pic I ran across. A fellow can dream, tho!

 

[babsbag]

That would be an easy swarm to capture. I was never that lucky. I understand that bees go to a waiting area when they swarm and wait for the scouts to come back with a suitable nesting spot and then leave again. I guess they might as well wait there as anywhere.

 

[Maggiesdad]

It very easily could have been staged, by tying on a caged queen and then turning a bunch of workers loose, the same way they do "bee beards" on people.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Staged or not, it's a cool picture.

 

[Maggiesdad]

Hello, BEEPEOPLE!