Bee Building

Brandon loves any excuse to build things, so he is going to help build some parts of the bee hive. I bought most of the hive, except for the elevated hive stand and the hive stand. We need the elevated hive stand because there are a lot of skunks in Los Altos, and if the bees are on the ground, the skunks will eat all of the bees (one skunk can eat a whole hive over the course of 4 days). We don't really need the hive stand, I just think it looks nice, and it supposedly gives the bees a larger landing area to enter the hive.

 (Above) Happy helper, Brandon, sanding and filling holes in the hive stand.

(Above) We still need to paint them, the hive stand is on the left, and the elevated hive stand is on the right.

Here are the plans (which we drew up after the fact... probably why it took us 3 tries to make them...)