Tag: bees

Bees and lupins.

My attempt to capture a bee photo in the Garibaldi school garden on my phone…. what was so remarkable about this was 1) how many bees there were in the lupin patch and 2) that you could see their full pollen sacs (that orange… Continue Reading “Bees and lupins.”

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Sunday Bees.

I’m hoping that this activity around the mouth of my top-bar hive on Sunday means that my bees are settling in and doing what they are supposed to be doing in there. I’m nervous at the moment – it’s pretty cold still and I’m… Continue Reading “Sunday Bees.”

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Bee-life: Some top-bar hive photographs

I picked my package of bees up at West Coast Bee on Saturday and brought them home, put the finishing touches on my top-bar hive as the snow started to fall late Saturday morning, and installed my bees with Brian’s help on Sunday morning.… Continue Reading “Bee-life: Some top-bar hive photographs”

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