2/9/2024 0 Comments Th hive drawitAttempting to hold the unwieldy, unevenly weighted frame, the smoker and my hive tool was difficult. On the next frame I tried to smoke all the bees off first. Luckily there were too busy trying to clean everything up to come after me too much. Honey removed from burr comb.Īfter I put the frame back in the hive, the bees were mad. I felt horrible seeing them drowning in their own food. What I ended up with was a big sticky mess and at least 100 dying bees covered in honey. So carefully I stood the frame up over a cookie sheet and using my hive tool cut straight down, leveling off the comb. One frame had eggs on it so I left it alone, but the other two frames had to be cut. The frames are heavy to remove and unwieldy to handle and I have been waiting for things to calm down in the hive to get rid of this wild comb. This causes the comb to be wavy, and prevents the bees from drawing out wax properly on the adjacent frame. ![]() They have 3 frames which are filled top to bottom with honey drawn out far beyond the width of the frame. This bottom hive loves to build burr comb. This hive was still a bit testy and things were about to get worse for them. I think she was there since I saw eggs but I just could not locate her. A brief inspection of this hive located, eggs, larvae, and capped brood but I could not find the queen. This hive has been cranky since they swarmed on June 10th.They were not queen right, so who can blame them. Now the bottom box in the bottom hive was where the trouble started. I hope they draw it out nicely and stop building that darn burr comb! It has been a long time coming and very much-needed to build up the colony population. In the top box of the bottom hive, they were actively drawing out 4 frames of wax. There were bees in the honey super just mulling around, no wax building. Their wax building left much to be desired, so after my hive inspection, I added a baggie feeder to the top hive to try to get them to draw out more frames. The bees were calm, busy and bringing in lots of pollen. More bees had migrated to the top box, but the population was still small. I left the real “sticky” work for today.Īfter checking the top hive, finding the queen, eggs, larvae and capped brood, everything looked good. Yesterday, I lifted the cover briefly to see if they had chewed through the paper, which they had, and then slid the top hive over to remove the rest of it. Today was my first real inspection of my two queen hive. I’m officially in the bee murder’s club now and it doesn’t feel good at all. ![]()
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