Step 1: Find flowers

 Step 2: Collect Pollen

 Step 3: Return to the hive

The above cells are actually full of brood, which are baby bees. They are kind of ugly being a white larva. The nurse bees tend them and when they are ready they cap the cell and the larva pupates into a bee.  It's pretty incredible!

Welcome home

 Hello, welcome to the hives. They are full of busy bees, doing what they do best; keeping busy as bees.  Observing these insects for just a few days, I am intrigued, impressed, and truly in love.

 Meet Susan, Meredith, Lily, Rose, Charlotte, Wendy, Lucy, Violet, Ruth, Lorraine, Iona, etc.  All girls? Yep. Worker bees are female

 Where are the boys? Male bees are called drones and their only function is to fertilize the queen. Drones make up a very small percentage of the total colony. In the Autumn, the drones are expelled from the hive by the worker bees. Poor guys,