Day 17:
Woke up and helped around in the garden for a while. After breakfast we went on a hike to a new location. We ended up in a cave, with bats flying around right above our heads. Once done here, we continued to Strawberry Point which has a beautiful view. On the way back we stopped at a guinep tree; these tasted very similar to a sour lemon - warhead.
We went into the bees later in the day. Yet again, a new location, where a couple hives were kept on a friends property in exchange for some honey during harvest time. Afterwards we went to another ladies house, and helped with her hives because she was unable to.
Day 18:
Had an early morning at the farmers market again. Was a similar adventure to last time, except more pineapple and watermelons. Lots of watermelon. Also tried an Otaheiti apple for the first time. They looked similar to a plum and tasted very delicious.
We drove to the apiary on the upper end of the property and checked out a couple hives. One of the hives did not seem to have a queen, and had very many queen cells. This means there is a high chance the queen took many of the bees and swarmed to a new location, leaving roughly half the bees behind. As Kwao was explaining that bees like to swarm in nearby trees, we looked up, and lo and behold - the swarm was in the tree. We found an empty hive, backed his truck up directly under the hive. I got on top of his car and held the hive under the bees while he shook the tree. After my 10th sting of the minute I decided I would spectate the remainder. Next week we are going to check the new swarm hive for a queen. If they have a queen and are laying eggs - good; however, no queen means they will likely swarm right back to where we captured them from.
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