Taking Beekeeping Lessons! - The first live session

Bees come in a package, with a queen cage. Workers cluster around the queen cage.

Here is a package of bees with the queen cage and sugar water removed.

David shakes the package bees into the hive.

Here is a frame with capped brood, pollen, and nectar.

David demonstrates how docile the bees are if handled properly.

There's the queen!

The second hands-on beekeeping lesson.

The Brookside bee yard during class.

A queen marked with a blue dot.

Do you see the tiny bee eggs?

A bee emerging from its cell.

Busy beekeepers.

Looking for drones to practice marking bees.

Burr comb built between frames that were held apart by the queen cage - held up to the sunlight.