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| Bill Mondjack | profile | all galleries >> Lehigh Valley Beekeepers Assn. >> 2010 Package Bee Delivery | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 "Dry run" |
 Steve & Bill |
 "El Cheapo" gas stop |
 WILBANKS APIARIES |
 Refridgerated room |
 Wood shop |
 Wilbanks workshop |
 Packages |
 Inside Wilbanks |
 Sugar syrup filling room |
 Beeswax Steamboat |
 "Thank You" from Egypt |
 Gardner Apiaries |
 Queen cups |
 Frame holding queen cup bars |
 One of the Grafters |
 Bee yard behind Gardners |
 Steve outside the 'grafting' house at Spell Bee (Gardners) |
 Waiting for pick-up |
 Incubator |
 Ripe queen cells on bar |
 Boxes of ripe queen cells |
 Portable incubator |
 Harvesting young larvae for grafting |
 Priming cups |
 Priming cups |
 Grafting |
 Grafting |
 Grafting |
 Inside the 'Grafting House" |
 Gardner's Apiary, Spell Bee LLC |
 Mapping the next stop |
 Our bees ready for pick up |
 Drop-cloth on floor |
 Planning the load |
 Loading |
 Packing them in |
 Squeezing more in |
 Right up to the ceiling |
 The rest of our load being cooled by fans |
 Loading at H & R |
 Steve checking the operation |
 Stapling them all together |
 Does the door close? |
 Making sure the back door will close |
 Steve - ready to role with 3 million bees behind us. |
 Temp. check |
 Rest stop |
 Checking their temperature |
 Bees arrive at L.V.B.A. Apiary |
 Getting them out |
 They're all out |
 Nice load of bees |
 Happy Beekeeper |
 Another 'Happy Customer' |
 A nice place to gather |
 Hiving a package demo |
 Hiving a package demo |
 Demo |
 Here's the queen in her cage |
 Demo |
 Shaking the bees in |
 Placing the pkg. in a hive body. |
 Feeding |
 Top bar hive |
 Feeders inside the top bar hive |
 Shaking bees into the top bar hive |
 Shaking bees into top bar hive |
 Putting the top on. |
 Bees at entrance |
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