Bzz Bzz

I thought the box o' 13,000 bees would be scary. I brought bee suits, helmets, gloves and veils for the car ride home from the bee place, but it was quiet and compact enough to sit in the hatchback with a barely audible buzz.



Dave and Trevor (all suited up) set up the sugar water feeder. Turns out, with all that protective equipment, only one bee landed on my shoulder and she promptly noticed I wasn't a flower and took off. None of the little ladies were hostile and few even noticed us at all. When we wandered back out to the hive area later that night and the next day, no one suited up. We just gave the ladies their space and watched from a few feet away.



This is the little queen box that was suspended in the larger container. There's a queen in there somewhere. We saw her, but she wouldn't stand still for a picture.



So now the bees are all settled into the hive, just in time for a 50-degree rainstorm with gusty Adirondack Mountain winds. Those bees are saying, "We came all the way from Claxton, Georgia for this?!"

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