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