Capturing Wild Hives

The Internet has been down for a few days here and we've done a lot since then. We've taken down three wild hives and built two top bar hives!

 Building a top bar hive

Joshua filling the top bars with beeswax

The finished hive!

After building them a new home we went on an adventure to get some bees! Taking down the wild hives was insane. Damon, Kwao's cousin helped us move the bees from the their wild hives to our luxurious top bar hives. Two of the hives were in large termite nests and the other was a small swarm attached to a tree.

Breaking open and smoking out the first wild hive (Thanks, Emmanuel and Melcizedek for filming!)

Taking down the second wild hive.

Taking down the third (mini) wild hive (bareshirt beekeeping?)

Hopefully our bees are happy and will start building on the top bars soon! In other news, Tom and Erin are here! So now the real work will begin :) Unfortunately, that means Iver has left.

Your cutlass skills will be missed.