Queen Update

For those of you that follow my blog (and there are some, THANKS!), I just wanted to give a quick update on the Honeybees in our hive. Our beekeeper emailed me at the beginning of May that I would hopefully need to write a detraction in a few weeks because he placed a new queen in the hive. She got "chewed out," literally, from a sugar-covered casing he placed her in, and now she is moving about the hive, accepted by the others, laying egg after egg. There are larva and new bees already hatching out, so the hive is looking good. The new queen has a green dot of paint on her thorax so she can be easily spotted.

On another bee-related note, a man stopped by last week to let us know that he works for the Federal Government and he is charged with apiary inspection. He wasn't on the job when he stopped, and he didn't show me his badge or anything (does he even have a badge???) but he wanted to make sure we knew he'd be checking out our hive officially sometime in the near future. I have almost heard it all now. Official Apiary Inspector. Yikes.

For those of you who are interested in bees in an unofficial capacity, come up and visit any time and maybe even on June 13th at 2:30pm (it's FREE) for the Bees and Beekeeping lecture.