Minnie catches a bee swarm

Kia ora Guys,



Minnie gave me permission to blog the photos she posted on Facebook about

catching a bee swarm.  The speech bubbles indicate her words, I've just cut and

pasted her story .  I think its very very cool.  

"Kia ora Donna,

you are welcome to put a write up on there. I can email you the photos or you can get them off facebook. I am not a bee keeper as such. I have only gathered 2 swarms before, but we have hives on Kapiti Island and I have been involved with them a little bit. We have had a couple of hives before, but I didnt do any of the mahi then. I have a friend that is showing me the ropes. If you have any questions just flick me an email or fb message.  Cheers....Minnie"

"Just collected another swarm......thanks again to Janine Gardiner for being photographer A1+. :-)"

"Just collected another swarm......thanks again to Janine Gardiner for being the photographer

"Standing on the roof of Amo's car.....reaching up, sawing a couple of small branches off so I could get to the swarm. Then broke the branch so swarm could fall into the cardboard box sitting on car roof."

"And here they are before going into their new whare"

"And I only got 1 bee sting! Oh ouchie too! I was too lazy to put the whole bee suit on. Won't be so lazy next time. :-) And thanks to Tumanako Clark-mackie for helping me take the bees to their new whare and being photographer number 2"








I just wanted to say a big mihi

 to Minnie and her

 photographers, for sharing

 this on FB and allowing me to

 make a blog post out of it.

  I've been wanting to get

 bees for a while now, for

 pollination and honey.  Its

 inspirational.  Didn't you feel 

a even a little bit scared?  and

 yet you'd have to be calm so

 the bees stayed calm.  Very

 cool.  Thanks 

The last photo is a video link- I'm not sure if I'll be able to get it to work.