Mean Hive- Football

I have one renegade, mean hive that I am trying to figure out how to fix. It goes nuts when I open it, and so I waited a week (partly out of fear) and opened it an hour ago, with plenty of smoke, and calm everything (movements, slow,etc) (except deep down), and I could hear the pitch rising, and see one or two, then three or four, stingers hanging from my upper left chest pocket...yow-and its not me I care about here- I am safe in my suit- - but my neighbor who is contemplatively mowing the lawn, and the other neighbors, with the kids out playing football- I worry about them, and so I put up this red tape up that says "danger" and I think that's a very good idea- but told myself, if they start stinging, then close them up, and dont dawdle.

Which I did. So I never really got to see if there is a queen here or not. There is uncapped drone brood, so thats what? A queen a few weeks ago? And capped worker brood. But I had no time to find eggs or young brood, and only say empty comb- which strongly suggests to me that there is (not again!) : no queen. Sheesh. How many queens am I going to get this year? I think i am up to 5, with 14 hives, and they are 30 bucks a pop.

 

These mites were on a bee stuck overnight on a mite board. I pulled- and crushed, eight mites total! 

A bee head- testing my digital microscope.

I shut the hive down. And smashed a few really mean bees on m chest. Probably not fair to them- but thinking- maybe these are mean guard bees and might sting a kid.

Also, I have to do this today (Saturday), as tomorrow is church, and we live next to the the "Adventure" Church, where they have an espresso machine out front, and I assume, all have coffees while they listen to Christian Rock, and my concern is- that all those cars and Iraq war vets and their wives in heels and tow headed kids in dress-up... would not appreciate this sort of "Adventure".

Which reminds me- the 7 year old boy named Avery came by today, to swing in the hammock and show me his new Football Outfit (he said- this is really comfortable, I feel like I have more POWER- i said- what are you doing for your mind? well, he's only 7, I suppose he is doing a lot, mostly revolving around Star Wars, but he didn't hear me).

Anyway- he says he has an app on his phone (he has a phone?) and he can scan stuff, and it tells him who made whatever it is.  So he scans a tree- and it first asks him:  do you believe in God? And if he answers no, it says,then  this tree came from nothing. But if he says yes: well then: God made it. He thought this was funny. I thought, seeing him in his helmet and huge shoulder pads on a Christopher Robin body, this was hilarious.

The base of Armenian Blackberry- I was trying to distinguish where the nectar receptacles were- but need to do more disection. Maybe set up the stereo microscope. Bees bury their heads down into the stamens and somehow find nectar. I don't see how.