Bees

On Friday I went with Marco and Lindsay to get bees for Petraia. I love honey, which means I love bees. I was excited! Petraia had 7 families and in the last year 6 of them died...this is all part of the world-wide bee crisis. Petraia searched far and wide to find some new bees and finally a couple weeks ago they found some just 40 minutes away!

Here are the bee men:

Growing up we had bees on the farm, but because of my lack of memory the only thing I can recall about the bees was the feeling of sucking honey out of the combs. It was delcious. They let us try some of the honey here but it wasn't the same feeling as I remember from being a kid, although it was still yummy.

The two guys were really excited about having two Canadian's visiting and gave us a tour as well as many photo opportunities.

Here is the Queen:

She's kinda hard to see. But she's near the top corner and looks bigger than the rest of them.

These are natural combs that the bees made. This is a new family.

After we loaded up the six full hives we drove back to Petraia and placed the bees to their new home. It was another really fun experience. I have been able to experience such amazing things by coming to Petraia and can't wait for one more month of them! (Yes that's right, the countdown has begun!)