We are jumping on the sustainability band wagon and trying our hands at growing some of our own food. Neither of us has ever done much in the way of vegetable gardening, so this is a real experiment.
The name of this endeavor came from the meditation labyrinth it shares space with.
Yet another excited question from me -- are the bees bonded to a specific queen, and go only to that hive, or do they switch back and forth depending on mood, configuration of the planets, etc?
Usually, they are bonded to one queen, but if they lose her, they bond to the one they find.
The ones in Rosamund keep returning to Rosamund. The bees in Lucretia, return to Lucretia. They weren't as connected to their queens when they first moved in, but they got used to her pheromones as they helped her out of her carriage.
So, it's possible that Rosamund has more bees than Lucretia, for now, because some that were in the Lucretia box wondered over to the Rosamund hive when they had just been hived.
Yet another excited question from me -- are the bees bonded to a specific queen, and go only to that hive, or do they switch back and forth depending on mood, configuration of the planets, etc?
ReplyDeleteUsually, they are bonded to one queen, but if they lose her, they bond to the one they find.
ReplyDeleteThe ones in Rosamund keep returning to Rosamund. The bees in Lucretia, return to Lucretia. They weren't as connected to their queens when they first moved in, but they got used to her pheromones as they helped her out of her carriage.
So, it's possible that Rosamund has more bees than Lucretia, for now, because some that were in the Lucretia box wondered over to the Rosamund hive when they had just been hived.
Does that make sense?