Day one of summer posting....
Hi y'all. For the summer I am attempting to post one quick post a day. I have been so busy, blogging just is not in the cards but I miss spending time here so this is my solution!
This season, we have 7 new hives and placed 3 at a sponsor farm for pollinators for them!
Awe yea!! The pic loaded right side up! This is a frame from one of our nuc boxes before loading it into the new hive
Each nuc comes with 4 frames of brood, eggs and worker bees plus one queen
Awe of course not all the pics would load properly lol! The hives all set up and ready to go!
Full disclosure.....beekeeping still makes me nervous unless I am fully suited up. I gotta work on that....hopefully the fear subsides over time with constant work with them.🙂🐝
I hope you have all been well ❤
Thank you for reading! Take care of you and yours ❤
It use to make me nervous too. A good suit of protection goes a long way to suppress the nerves. I tried the no protection method. One time I got stung at least 50 times in one session.
I had bees in my butt crack.
Oddly enough, I'm proud to be one of the few fools who can say that!
No more, I'm over that. Now I have a nice jacket with a built in Vail, good gloves and thick pants. No more bluejeans with holes in them.
I don't worry anymore about getting stung. I still do, you just have to do some bee work without gloves.
I'm trying to raise Queens and for some of that you can't use gloves.
Oh wow hahaha! That is crazy, 50 stings at once!! The most I got in one go was 7.
Ya, I literally panic if i am uncovered. My hubs does it without gloves, usually without the suit. I am not there yet.....very cool raising queens. Would love to learn!
Hopefully I will be able to show you, soon.
I'm working on my next Live Stream Queen project now.
One thing I have noticed is that mosquito bites don't affect me as much anymore or at all. I thought I wasn't getting bitten, I still see some biting me but I don't seem to swell up with a "bite" as much if at all anymore. Not an overall loss for getting stung so many times. I did get some kind of reward for it.
Well that was awesome! Im glad you are able to do that and share it 👍
Thanks @michaelevans!