Thanks! Not one sting HI tech! I didn't believe my mentor when he said no stings, now I do. I got stung helping him do his beard :shock: Apis nice pics, I loved the top bar pics. I am just finishing an electric fence around my bee yard and building stands for hives, I plan on trying some top bar hives next season, seems like a nice cheap way to store swarms, and cell builder colonies. Members pics always make things a lot clearer than a book. And yes I do like showing this pic :D my family thinks Im nuts, but kids especially are facinated. My mentor is really a honeybee advocate trying to teach people the value of the bee. Its amazing how much fear is out there (and we don't even have AHB in our area :D ) It saddens me everytime I hear of a swarm being killed because people freak out when one lands in a park or public place. We have a lot of school groups come to HoneylandCanada to do tours which is great, the less fear people have of bees the less the bees get blamed for being a menace. Bees are being hit by disease, and losing ground to farming practices and pesticides at an alarming rate.