The Bees are Buzzing

Guido, our forestry manager, is happy to report that his new honey bee colony has made themselves right at home at the ranch and starting to travel further afield in search of pollen. They’re in for a real treat as the alpine wildflowers have started blooming in the mountains.
Last week we had a little more excitement than normal as we watched Guido and Kevan cut down a newly swarmed colony from a nearby tree limb, and place them in a new bee box. As Guido tells us, once a hive has run out of storage room, the new mature queen bee, accompanied by a number of worker bees, will swarm together and build a new hive elsewhere. This is how bees propagate their species – and there’s only room for one queen bee in a hive.