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In early November
all of the hives are gather together and stacked in rows four pallets
high in a staging area or load out yard, where they await arrival of
semi-trucks for transport to Florida at the end of the month.
Using our GEHL loader, we carefully put 34 of these stacks
of hives onto the bed of the semi-truck. When we are finished, we will
have 544 hives on the truck, ready to be netted and banded for the trip
to Florida, which takes approximately 24 hours.
We time our arrival in Fl to coincide with dawn and then
the process is reversed and the bees are set out in a scattered array
on large ranches, where they will look for pollen and nectar amongst the
maple trees and willows, that border the many lakes and swamps.
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