Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Setting up hives for future bees
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Beekeeping in Iceland
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Beekeeping in Iceland
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Beekeeping in Iceland
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Beekeeping in Iceland
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Beekeeping in Iceland
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Beekeeping in Iceland
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Beekeeping in Iceland
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Beekeeping in Iceland
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Beekeeping in Iceland
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Beekeeping in Iceland
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Beekeeping in Iceland
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Beekeeping in Iceland
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Honeybees carrying pollen back to the CEBA bee yard at Oatland Island Wildlife Center of Savannah, Georgia
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
First two hives at Beeco Bee Co. - names Candy Land and Happy Day
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Construction begins on Beeco Bee Co.
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Landscaping in Beeco Bee Co. bee yard
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Introducing "The Fishsticks" to the #Beeco Bee Co. water garden
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Drone larva (baby boy bees) at CEBA bee yard at Oatland Island Wildlife Center of Savannah
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Today I helped place these new packages of bees into their new hive homes. See how they clump together inside the screen sided box to keep warm? #BeecoBeeCo #beekeeping #bees
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
After we placed the new queen and bees inside the hive, we watched the bees find the front door and go on orientation flights so they get their bearings - a great sign they are settling in nicely! #BeecoBeeCo #beekeeping #bees
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
The new queen and her attendants come in a little screened box with its exit blocked by a sugar plug. We placed the queen box between frames and then turned the box of bees over on top of her (this photo). The bees will eat the sugar plug to free her and
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
The Buddha fairy came to my beeyard!
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Installing my first bees - a wild swarm - into a hive at Beeco Bee Co.
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Installing my first bees - a wild swarm - into a hive at Beeco Bee Co.
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Closeup of bees around the queen cage, Beeco Bee Co.
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
The queen cage covered with bees, Beeco Bee Co.
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Preparing to release the queen into the hive, Beeco Bee Co.
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Releasing the queen into the hive, Beeco Bee Co.
Kristine - traveller, hiker and quilter:
Feeding sugar water to the new hive of bees, Beeco Bee Co.
