This fat little crab always has bees hanging out of its mouth! He takes full advantage of the Apiaries behind my house.

...they're just up the street as well.

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

The new apiary has a much wider door and a large viewing window onto the hives

Out of the box - ready to be harvested

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

bees

(cf. aviary : birds)

The Rosebud Apiary site in Cook from the rear, with its assortment of cottages, farm buildings and old farm equipment. The site still backs on to farmlands and the Mount Painter reserve, but suburban development is going on apace to the west. Taken in 2017.

She's explaining how to gently get the bees into box.

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

Olympus digital camera

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

Nuc boxes on a stand.

Rick hands me a frame full of honeycombs - approx 40 lbs of which the majority is honey

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

CSE COs Apiary Lunch

24x36 acrylic abstract on stretched canvas 2020

Rick and Susan have this set up in their kitchen. They seal the room off to maintain specific temperature and humidity

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

Apiary Magazine Launch Party 2012

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

as it is pulled out of the hive

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary

Preschool Beekeepers visit Champlain Apiary