Sunday 28th July 2013 ~ Hive Inspection

Hive Inspection

The Crown Board

The new super, seems quite busy
 

Various frames of nectar from the second super

The original super
~ Various frames ~

 The Brood Box

The bees suddenly seemed a bit agitated when we opened the brood box and although we made a good inspection it needed both of us for a while so I don't have any further pictures. We saw brood in all stages and loads of eggs. The queen was on frame 5

 We have added a new super directly on top of the queen excluder in an attempt to get that drawn out and we hope with the capped honey on the top the bees will finish capping that and leave it alone. Next week or the following week we may put porters in the crown board and put the honey above it. We might read up on this idea.

 Our skyscraper hive!!!

Saturday 20th July 2013 ~ Hive inspection

Hive Inspection

The new super we placed last week seems to have plenty of bees on it

A couple of frames from the top super

Glistening with nectar

Original super

Some frames from the original super with capped honey

The Brood Box

Gardening near the hive

~ 33 degrees today!! ~

Sunday 14th July 2013 ~ Hive Inspection

Today we had our granddaughter Esmé's help again :-)

A very hot day for a hive inspection and once again our eldest granddaughter is here to help as she stayed last night with us.

The super looked really busy with bees on every frame :-)

Esmé holding her first frame

And looks happy about it.

Another frame and this one is heavier

Looking at capped honey :-) Our first capped honey on the super
~ How exciting is that!! ~

Capped honey

And so to the brood box

Busy Bees

Frame 9 with the queen; this is the frame we are trying to move out to the edge to get rid of and exchange for a nice clean Hoffmann but the queen loves this frame :-(

As the super was so full we decided it was a good idea to add a second super; luckily we had this all ready to go in our bee shed.

Esmé with the new taller hive

End of the inspection
Generally a very good and improving colony