Week 18 #2. Goodbye, Marge. I’ll miss your honey, but not your stings.
One of the backyard beehives Africanized itself, so Karl got a lesson in packing up a beehive full of thousands of very, very angry bees for transport.
Fun fact: The best time to move a beehive is at night, which is also the time when successful bee rustlers go to work.
Week 16 #1. The first beehive checkup of the year ended on an unexpectedly painful note.
Week 7 #4. Tiny crab eating a bee that washed up on the beach.
Week 7 #2. Kauai doesn’t have Varroa mites or small hive beetles. It’s pretty close to being beekeeping utopia.
Week 3 #4. Various pollinators on alyssum.
Day 358.
Day 316. We admired Queen Knives’s egg-laying pattern. (The eggs are those little white bars in the center of each cell of comb in the center-right portion of the photo. A good queen will consistently fill adjacent cells with a single egg as shown here; a not-so-good one will scatter eggs -sometimes more than one per cell- willy-nilly over the frame. You can see some larger larvae towards the bottom left of the photo.)
