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Bees arrived - Bee video/blog update!
13 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01gtsL8Oqeg
Thanks to all of our generous and awesome donors from our Kickstarter campaign, we now have bees! We have successfully set up our first apiary and have been photo documenting the process of getting, installing, and checking on our new bees. :)
You can follow our bee adventures on Blogger, http://foxloft.blogspot.com/ Tumblr http://foxloft.tumblr.com/ or livejournal : http://foxfeather.livejournal.com/
It's been absolutely amazing so far - despite the fact our bee suits didn't arrive on time and we did our first colony installations and checks without any protection - it was a bit intense, since I've never had my face in a swarm of bees before, but they were surprisingly gentle and uninterested in me - way too much change and things going on for them to care, I think.
Thank you again to everyone who has made this happen for us! We will also be housing native bumblebees as well as blue orchard bees/mason bees and other species and will be updating with lots of info about those soon! I don't plan to keep posting journals here since I know not everyone on FA is as interested - but if you are just follow one of our blogs above - there's lots to come!
Thanks to all of our generous and awesome donors from our Kickstarter campaign, we now have bees! We have successfully set up our first apiary and have been photo documenting the process of getting, installing, and checking on our new bees. :)
You can follow our bee adventures on Blogger, http://foxloft.blogspot.com/ Tumblr http://foxloft.tumblr.com/ or livejournal : http://foxfeather.livejournal.com/
It's been absolutely amazing so far - despite the fact our bee suits didn't arrive on time and we did our first colony installations and checks without any protection - it was a bit intense, since I've never had my face in a swarm of bees before, but they were surprisingly gentle and uninterested in me - way too much change and things going on for them to care, I think.
Thank you again to everyone who has made this happen for us! We will also be housing native bumblebees as well as blue orchard bees/mason bees and other species and will be updating with lots of info about those soon! I don't plan to keep posting journals here since I know not everyone on FA is as interested - but if you are just follow one of our blogs above - there's lots to come!
I hope when I'm older I can do something like this when I'm financially stable.
I love bees!
Aww, if I had known, I'd have donated.
Good luck and keep some extra equipment around... This is a big year for swarms (free bees)!