The bees are here

By 6:30AM Saturday morning, I was on the road to pick up my bees. After installing a package of bees at Rick's, I loaded up our new neighbors and headed home to install them. Everyone I had talked to leading up to Saturday asked what the bees come in. I did my best to explain but here is a picture of a package..
 

Bees waiting to be installed



The bees are clustered around the queen in the cage




Queen cage removed from the package





Dumping the bees into their new home



Getting the sugar syrup ready for the install



Done!

You may notice that initial pictures are clear but when I started to install (dumped out 34,000 bees!) the pictures start to become a bit more fuzzy. My camerawoman (his beautiful wife, Stephanie) started walking backwards across the yard when the bees began buzzing. No matter how much I assured her that they would not bother her..she insisted on keeping her distance (I'm sure some of you out there do not blame me!).

The bees are settling in now and we will be adding more pictures soon.