I realize we don’t have a “normal” American house. This spring the photo of the dining room showed plant stands. Now we have the indoor “observation” bee hive going.
While checking the bees last week I found a couple “queen cells”, meaning the bees were dissatisfied with their current queen, or the current queen was planning to lead a swarm. I brought them into the observation hive to watch and learn.
I realized what a long way I’d come since the first year we did this. The hive is too heavy for me to carry loaded with bees, so in the past Tony carried it out on the deck and we opened it up to put bees in or take frames out as needed to give them more room. This time I just put the hive in empty, and carried the frames into the house one by one and put them in. Only had about a dozen bees to relocate by hand.
