These are the photos from the Bee Extraction in late summer 2009. The eave was opened up and the bees were vacuumed into the bucket. Then the hive was removed. We left the eave open for several days and sprayed it with vanilla water to remove the scent. Hopefully, it won't be a bee-home next year! We saved some of the honey--great taste--and from our own flowers, too. The bees were over-wintered at a lower altitude. This sparked enough interest that the youngest daughter Kate and I decided to enroll in the Boulder County Extension Service Bee-keeping Class. It lasted for 8 weeks, 3 hours once a week. There's a lot to learn.....
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