Save the Bees!

Beekeepers usually have a reason to start beekeeping.  Some do it for the honey, for profit.  Some do it to pollinate plants.  My interest in bees began with the news that honeybee populations were in decline. 

Save the bees.  

This, I have come to learn, is terribly challenging.  There are long cold and dark winters, there are mites that want to suck the fat out of your bees, there are a myriad of challenges to keep bees alive.  They are intriguing, perplexing, and awesome. 

When the call came in at 3pm on Tuesday for a swarm very near where I was located, I had all the right things to capture these wandering bees.  Save the Bees!!  And save the bees I did!!  Angie now has a hive of (free!) bees.  Beekeeping can be so fun some days.