Kacy is taking a beekeeping class in GRACE this year, and is abosolutely loving it! Her teacher, Mrs. Cindy asked yesterday while we were at the Fall Family Fun Night if Kacy would like to help remove a swarm this morning. And of course she said yes, wouldn't you? The swarm was in a water meter that had not been checked all summer. So the hive was well formed.
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| Mrs. Cindy and Kacy getting suited up. |
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| Dad is helping unload the bee vacuum and the cart of supplies...oh that space martian on the side of the screen is Kacy. |
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| Lighting the smoker to keep the bees calm, but they were already pretty calm so we didn't have to use it very much |
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| And this is the bee vacuum that Mr. Boyd (Mrs. Cindy's husband) is hooking up. We just hooked up a hose to the other side and sucked up bees. |
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| View from the van of the work... Mrs. Cindy didn't have enough suits for mama and dad so they watched from the van. |
When we got the queen of the hive and most of the bees, we packed up the vacuum and took it to Mrs. Cindy's home to move it into a real hive body.
The most exciting part of the day was that she let Kacy keep the hive!!!! She didn't want it so she told Kacy that if we cam and helped her get it, we could keep it. This time of year is a really bad time to start a hive, so its a 50% chance the hive will die. I'll keep you posted on how it goes.
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