For all of you DC comic fans out there, our next hive's queen bee is named after the beautiful, powerful, and totally bad-ass villain, Queen Zazzala. While our Queen Zazzala isn't exactly plotting world domination in her hive (we hope), she does run a tight ship with lots of busy worker bees coming and going at her command.
Queen Zazzala's hive is in University Heights. There, her worker bees find lots of dandelions, wild clover and thistle in the field next to the Alberta Children's Hospital. There are also lots of mountain ash trees, lilacs, and apple trees to feast on.
The hive itself isn't an intergalactic spaceship, but one of Jerremie's experimental chest hive designs. He has taken pieces of a traditional Langstroth hive and put them together to create a low chest for Queen Zazzala to lay her baby bees, with extra boxes going up on one side to hold honey. This design will hopefully be easier to move around than the traditional tall stack of a Langstroth hive.
True to her namesake, Queen Zazzala is managing to defy us currently by not using the hive entrance that we designed for her. Instead, she is sending the worker bees through two unintentional little gaps in the sides of the hive. We hope to foil this evil plot by plugging up the holes and forcing Queen Zazzala to use the right entrance. Will Queen Zazzala be denied? Will the valiant beekeepers prevail? Stay tuned for the next post in this ongoing saga...
