4/28: gathering a swarm

When I arrived home after work, Chris was in the clearing near the beehives, and he was looking up. I could tell, seeing him even from a distance, that he was watching a swarm. It landed on a branch that was reachable by ladder, so we managed to get the bees into a swarm box. Once they settled down we got them into a nuke hive--where we hope they'll stay.

It was nice to be bee-keeping partners.

And, as an extra happy thing, I managed to spot the queen of the swarm. I felt lucky that my eyes alighted on her, amidst hundreds of bees.