From: Dina and Don Hess <ddhess@bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 12:11:24 -0500
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: cute pic, couldn't resist

Not specifically relevant to discussions, but the owner of the land
where I set up my hives took some pictures of my daughter as I was
getting things ready for installing my packages. These show her playing
around the full packages with intense interest.

http://personal.bna.bellsouth.net/bna/d/d/ddhess/bees1.jpg
http://personal.bna.bellsouth.net/bna/d/d/ddhess/bees2.jpg

For update on my Langstroth hive: I installed the new queen Friday. I
went back Wednesday to trim out some misdrawn comb and remove the queen cage. Again I saw no sight of the old queen. I got a better look at
some of the comb (it was actually before sunset when I made it out there
this time) and saw some larvae I'm guessing were a week or less old;
still no capped worker brood. I also found the new queen -- at the
center of a tight over-enthusiastic wad of workers. She seemed to still
be alive but I'm concerned that this is what balling looks like.
Anywas, I figure I'll let them try to get their act together a bit and
if they aren't behaving in 2 weeks I'll dump them in the field to
bolster the other colonies. A laying worker wouldn't be accepted into a
queenright hive under those circumstances would it?

-Don