Helping with Bees!

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Pulling the sugar water can out of the bee transport case
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It was pretty hard. The lip on the bottom of the can was preventing it from easily coming out.
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Can's out, now the queen's being put in her new home. Note a couple of bees flying around on on people.
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She's shaking the bees into the hive after putting the queen in.
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More shaking. Really the bees weren't aggressive. Just checking out the hive. There are a lot flying around though, you can just see them in the air.
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After she got her hood (after getting stung) she's reassembling the hive so the bees are happy.
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Almost all the bees shaken out and on the cardboard. They were really just sitting there mostly. They were a little damp from the spray and were cleaning each other off. I'd escorted one pretty damp one into the hive.
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Shocking! Got a bee sting right on the bridge of my nose!
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Clearer pic on the other hand. Again, he's just checking things out.
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After getting about half the bees into the hive she put them down. She got one sting on the back of her neck and one was stuck in her hair so she bailed briefly while the bees calmed down.
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Bees Bees Bees. The lump is the sugar can with the bees all over it. The little metal tab you can see is the tab for the queen cage. She'll eat her way out with the others eating from the other direction (the plug is a mixture of powdered sugar and honey).
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Right eye is a little puffy this morning.
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Bees in the transportation case. Lots and lots of bees!
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After removing the sugar water container, she's removing the queen (the little metal tab)
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The queen is in the little tiny box with the other bees surrounding it.
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The camera focussed on the box and not the queen but that's the queen cage on the right with the two bees on the wire mesh.
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Spraying the tea and sugar water mixture on the bees to calm them down.
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Shaking bees into the hive.
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One on my hand. Just checking things out.
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