#bee keeper

Wanted to make an AU where Tenna took care of bees and collected honey !! Kinda was inspired by bee swarm simulator (I'm obsessed with that game XD )

His color palette actually looked way different when I first started drawing him. I switched to pink later on which I'm very happy I did.

My partner also said that Spamton should be a bee in this AND OMG LOL I did draw it.

ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture by A.l. Root, 1962

First Lessons in Beekeeping by C.P. Dadant, 1917 (1990 ed.)

Beekeeping for the Beginner (Manitoba Department of Agriculture), 1980

Here’s a short story featuring the magic of bees in my Wizard of Madeira chronicles

The Bee Keeper

Gouache and gold ink on paper

Apiculture: scenes of beekeeping and honey gathering.

Wood engraving, 1885.

Dipping the wooden plate into melted wax.

Peeling the wax sheet off the wooden plate.

Passing the wax sheet through the foundation machine.

A sheet of foundation fastened into a frame.

An American apiary.

Uncapping the cells.

Placing the comb in the extracting machine.

Throwing the honey out of the comb.

Empty the comb ready to replace in the hiver, to be refilled by the bees.

First picture is the RiverVale hive, second is RiverDale.

This weekend I am going to be out of town so I wont be able to do my inspection when I usually do. I am afraid of the worst case where I leave and my roomate has to deal with the hives like swarming or something and scaring our neighbors. Based on what I saw this past weekend I think the RiverDale Hive might be solid for a tiny bit more space, and the RiverVale Hive I think will benefit from the wax foundations instead of the plastic foundations that was in their second box. These new boxes are each eight frames of wax foundation and two frames of plastic foundation. So I bottom supered the RD hive, leaving their medium at the top since they already have some nectar stored up there. I just traded out the medium for a deep on the RV hive since they didnt have anything really built yet in their medium.

I have been so excited to put these boxes on! I bought a ton of Archie comics and mod podged the images on and topped it with a clear coat to protect them from the weather (at least for a little while).

Notice how the weeds have already grown straight through my gravel...

Some close ups from before I took them outside.