Pollen patties and inspections
Today was a first for both my daughter and my husband. They got to do something with the bees with me! I'm a second year beekeeper while both my hubby and daughter are both new-bees. My husband helped me inspect both beehives. Later, my daughter "helped" me put pollen patties on the hives. The hubby was a little nervous, but said after it was fun and really liked it. My daughter never really got over her nervousness, so its up to her if she wants to do more with me at the hives this year. Hopefully she will. Here's a youtube link to my daughter's first experience by the beehive (please like and subscribe to our new youtube channel while you're there!): Little bee's first bee experience I had to split my strong hive because I lost a hive over the winter. It's been a month since I've been into the new split hive, and found it was doing ok. The strong hive that I split from was also doing just ok--mostly because it decided to requeen ...