Beginner Beekeeper

Beginner Beekeeper
My first hive inspection

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Got the Bees!

We got our bees last night! Went to one of the members of the TBBA and picked up a whole hive of bees. Some say that it is not easiest way to start the beekeeping career, but to me it was pretty easy. :) We drove to his place loaded a netted beehive onto a pickup truck, then drove it to our place and put the bees on the beestand that I built the previous weekend. Done. We have our first bee hive! The next day I went back and removed the empty netted super that was holding the excess bees, and replaced it with our first brand new super. See the attached video. Sorry about the quality. It was shot on my iPhone.