Author: smeadr

EH#2 – AKA the strong hive… they are thriving! The pictures above are from this hive. There is 3 brood boxes full (roughly 3 frames with nothing on them on them). Eggs, larvae, capped brood, pollen and lots of honey 🍯. The first honey super is nearly full, they should be capping that box soon….

EH#2 – aka the strong hive. Added the 2nd honey super today. They have some honey 🍯 stored on every frame on the first honey super. Nothing capped yet up there. Here is a picture of one of the frames: WH#1 – has. Bump in population even from last Saturday. I added the 2nd brood…

So I popped the cover to a wonderful surprise, they seem to like Maggie! Yay.. so I decided to pull her and put the candy in so they can start working to release her.. I will check to see how she’s doing in a few days. Below is a good picture of what I am referring…

So I went up to Alton NH to pick up my new Queen and then headed back to get her in the hive as she had no attendants.  I get home and get her installed, I decide to leave the cork in her cage overnight so I can see how they are reacting to her…

Fresh off vacation, I had to wait for a good day to do my inspection. EH#2 was booming, lots of activity. So I smoked them and then popped the cover. I had a feeding shim on and they had made all kinds of bridge comb and made it really hard to get the inter cover…

Have a Great Day and bee Happy!

The exciting check to see if they have released any of the Queens and yes it looks like one of them has been released. Also they have cleaned up the mess of multiple eggs in single cells and we have BROOD / Lava! How Exciting! I think we are back on track here. There are…