Bees!

Well we're officially Bee Keepers!  We installed two packages (3lbs about 10,000 bees each) into our hives.  They should multiply six fold in the next few months if all goes well. 

 

This first picture is the package before we installed.

The boys are all very interested in the bees.  Hadrian in particular.  He wants to be included in everything we do with them.  We'll see how interested he is once the novelty wears off :)  Percy is also interested, but much more wary. 

The cats were convinced we had brought them new flying play toys.  They must have learned their lessons though as the first day was the only time we've caught them playing with the bees non stop.

 

The bees were supposed to fly out of the box to join the queen in the frames, but it looks like this queen flew back into the box instead!  We had to smoke and shake to get them all out!  It was a bit intimidating.  But we did get a nice piece of comb that they had build in there. 

We're hoping the queen shook out and didn't fly away during all the ruckus.