Omer, Bees, and Other Thing
May. 8th, 2011 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanarillMy Omer-counting is crap this year. Oh well. Today (that is, the day that began at sunset) is the nineteenth day of the Omer, which is two weeks and five days into the Omer.
Dan and I did some swarm trap-outs, which is what happens when we arrive after the swarm has moved into its new home (like in your wall where you do not want it!) but before it's gotten settled. You find where the hole through which they are getting in and out is, and put this one-way trap on. The bees can leave but not go back in, so they hang outside the entrance. The hive keeps sending out more bees, since no pollen/nectar is coming back and the hive needs those. Eventually, the hive is so depopulated that the queen comes out. To facilitate this, we also put a swarm box near the hole, with the comb and honey inside. The bees smell it and go, "oh, there is home" and then, hopefully, move in. And we get some bees.
Other thing: I might get a summer job at the company where the Panda works, doing things with IR, fuel sampling, and depending on amount of stuff to do, metallurgy. So I'd have less free time (boo hiss) but more money (yey).
Feeling kind of blah. [shrugs] Oh well.
Dan and I did some swarm trap-outs, which is what happens when we arrive after the swarm has moved into its new home (like in your wall where you do not want it!) but before it's gotten settled. You find where the hole through which they are getting in and out is, and put this one-way trap on. The bees can leave but not go back in, so they hang outside the entrance. The hive keeps sending out more bees, since no pollen/nectar is coming back and the hive needs those. Eventually, the hive is so depopulated that the queen comes out. To facilitate this, we also put a swarm box near the hole, with the comb and honey inside. The bees smell it and go, "oh, there is home" and then, hopefully, move in. And we get some bees.
Other thing: I might get a summer job at the company where the Panda works, doing things with IR, fuel sampling, and depending on amount of stuff to do, metallurgy. So I'd have less free time (boo hiss) but more money (yey).
Feeling kind of blah. [shrugs] Oh well.
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Date: 2011-05-13 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-15 07:23 am (UTC)And my new, fits-me bee suit has arrived, so hopefully hands-on stuff will be easier.