Days Two and Three
This is Sunday video, where Zombie kitty meets the bees and finds something yummy nearby-honeycomb, perhaps?
Monday, sunny and warmish, slight breeze. At sunset, I refilled the empty syrup jar (in the hive super, 1:1 + bee lively) and they seemed happy and busy and content. I got up close and personal twice (dressed, no smoke) and they did not fuss at me at all. Their leg baskets were stuffed with yellow pollen entering the hive. They have been enjoying the cool of the shaded deck, too, looking for water apparently. They ignored the large dish of rocks and rainwater i left near the sunny hive, preferring to suck from the cool shady garden sink tap and tiny nooks nearby. Their behinds bounce up and down while drinking. A few thought it fun to drink from the underside of a small potted lemon tree plant, sliding under the plastic pot on their backs with back end and feet sticking out... like mechanics underneath a car. It's really pretty cute.
Monday, sunny and warmish, slight breeze. At sunset, I refilled the empty syrup jar (in the hive super, 1:1 + bee lively) and they seemed happy and busy and content. I got up close and personal twice (dressed, no smoke) and they did not fuss at me at all. Their leg baskets were stuffed with yellow pollen entering the hive. They have been enjoying the cool of the shaded deck, too, looking for water apparently. They ignored the large dish of rocks and rainwater i left near the sunny hive, preferring to suck from the cool shady garden sink tap and tiny nooks nearby. Their behinds bounce up and down while drinking. A few thought it fun to drink from the underside of a small potted lemon tree plant, sliding under the plastic pot on their backs with back end and feet sticking out... like mechanics underneath a car. It's really pretty cute.