Happy Harvest Blog
A thorough bee day
I had a big bee day, doing all things bee. Building frames and parts, hive inspection, expansion, and more. They needed all kinds of things, including a yard cleanup. I doubt I would have lost that swarm if I was on this a few days earlier, but what's flown is flown. Now all the hives are set on concrete pads, all the wood scraps are cleaned up, and the bee yard looks more classy bee apartment structures, less bee shantytown.
Not what you expect when you open a hive
This hive....*head shake*... I knew right away it was going to be trouble. In the nuc box, they were already busy attaching the frames to the box. At first opening, they had burr comb and bridges everywhere - I figured they were going to be sculptors. Overactive wax glands. Plus about a dozen queen cells that time. I carefully scraped off all that unauthorized comb, but not even two weeks later, they've attached a sail to their feeder bottle. Not sustainable! Full of honey too.
Unwrapping the bees
I had been marveling at the towers of styrofoam prefab hives, but when she said that, I realized how now wood is the exception. That´s why they have to drag it out of the back. Everything is plastic. Plastic frames, plastic foundation, plastic hive parts now.
Instagram.
I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
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