Bees

My grandfather owns bees which he has for pollination of his fruit trees.  I went out with my mom today and helped her give the bees some sugar water.

 

As you can see from this picture, the bees were going in and out of the hives through the small hole at the bottom of their boxes.  It was slightly different doing them today, as we forgot our smoker and all but one of the gloves.  However, we were all very lucky in that the bees did not sting any of us.

 

That ring was left in place of where the feeder had been sitting.

There were still bees crawling on the feeder when we took it out.

We just used an old milk carton to carry our sugar water over with.

(Filling it up!)

We put the feeder back inside.  We were a little disappointed to see there was not a lot of activity in this hive.

 

The second hive was absolutely packed FULL with bees!  The second my mom began opening the lid all you could hear was the loud humming of their little wings as they moved around.

 

And THAT was our outing to go tend the bees.  We're going to go back on Sunday and see how much of the sugar water they have consumed in that time.