Good morning! Today is our last bee-free day. I say "ours" but it's really me on this bee endeavor. I'm hoping to get the rest of the family more interested, but I think my husband is pretty nervous about it and my older daughter just keeps asking me "Why do you like bees so much?" I have completed a 6 week class with my husband's childhood friend Joel and we each have a hive in my back yard. Joel lives in a downtown area in RI, so it's not really conducive to a beehive around there.
So here's my plan. I have to go to the store to buy sugar to make some "bee soup." No, you don't add bees to bee soup. It's a sugar supply to tide the bees over while they get situated in their new homes. You see, they woke up yesterday morning in Tennessee, all happy and flying around and gathering nectar, when all of a sudden they were unceremoniously dumped into a screen box with a queen they don't know. They are spending the day on a truck driving to an unfamiliar land (the state of Massachusetts) where they don't know the layout or even the flowers in the area. They will have no cells built to put honey or larva in, and they won't be bringing any babies with them. In short, they'll have their work cut out for them! As the Bee Mama, my job is to make it a little easier for them until they get up on their feet (all six of them) and can produce larva, honey, and comb on their own.
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