Beehives

Today was the day Rod has been so excited about.  For his birthday, his Dad gave him two beehives.  He has spent a lot of time doing all the work that is needed to get them ready.  Today was the day where he got to actually go pick up two hives with a total of approximately 12,000 bees.  ($200 worth - which is $100 per nuc) 

The sugar water feeder.  For right now he will feed them 8 pounds of sugar mixed with 1 gallon of water

The empty hive.  When he picks up the bees he will have 5 of the frames each

How do you transport bees?  This is what the box looked like that he brought home

There were quite a few buzzing around their heads

Looking for the queen

The queen is the one with the green dot.  They use a different color for the dot each year.  This is how they know how old the queen is.  For 2014, the dot is green