it looks good as hell on that dia de los muertos pano, childhood!
i'll see about eating some drone brood in mid-summer.
my deputy came by today and we installed a new Queen. either they accept her and feed her or they gather around her in a ball and suffocate her. from videos usually she comes w/ a few 'handlers' but this one is alone in her cage. i couldn't tell if the worker bees came in peace or war but i did see a proboscis going into the hole which leads me to believe a little friendly 'trophallaxis' or 'breaking bread' is going on. bees feed each other mouth to mouth or in certain cases of newborn bees, ass to mouth.
anal trophallaxis, as described by rosario dawson.
so i'll pop the top in 3 days time and see if the Queen has been liberated from her cell and accepted as the new matriarch or if the bees have turned on her in a suicidal bid to raise their own queen.. tbc....
Queen install