Moving the Bees

Our bees were like six degrees of separation. Me→Beth→Tim→Brian→Nick→Nick's friend→Bees in lawnmower.

So the guys went to get the bees and put them in our hive, leave the hive there for the bees to get used to their new digs, then they went back to pick them up and bring them home a few days later. It was a raging success!

Here's a vid of the transfer of the beasties into the hive. I'm amazed at the rows within the mower.

The lawnmower was not an ideal location for them, with not much room for honey and people wanting to get rid of the old mower. Winters here are mild, but winter nonetheless, and not enough honey to make it through. They'll be happy at our house. We have lots of flowers, a water source, and we'll throw a super on top as soon as they settle down. The super is where they make all their extra honey. That will give us a spring harvest of a little bit of the most local honey ever. Next year there will be more.