Our Summer Project

So this summer we had some friends move in.......

Last summer the same thing happened. A whole colony of honeybees built a hive on the chain of one of our bikes. Me, being afraid of the kids, (and myself!) getting stung had Ryan kill the whole colony with bug spray.

This summer, we had another colony move in! We decided to embark on a family project, Build a Beehive!

Once it was built, we made the big attempt to move them from the bike to the hive.....

Everything was going well and we were all excited to have our own real beehive! But, as you can see in the next photo there was already A LOT of honey in the previous hive..... So unfortunately we had more of a bee masacre than anything else. The bees ended up drowning in their own honey :( We were all very sad, especially after having worked so hard on the beehive. We learned a lot for next time, and hope to have the chance to "Build a Better Beehive" next time!