120 viewsThe bees wondering where the 3rd floor has disappeared to.
113 viewsA view of he inside of my top cover. Yes that is burr comb and yes it is filled with honey. It is very nice.
110 viewsThe top rows from under the cover.
108 viewsAnother look at the torn comb.
107 viewsMy observation hive. I took one side off.
106 viewsA clean break.
105 viewsI have taken off the top box. I am looking at the drone comb that is made between the bottom of the one frame to the top of the next frame. I just tear it open when I lift off the hive body. Then I will take the larva and lok at them and look for varroa on them and in the cells. I found a total of three. Not to bad.
105 viewsThis is a brood frame. They are not capped but it is filled with very tiny eggs and some very tiny larva. i a going to take this frame and put it in the nuc. I will take a frame from the nuc and put it in the big hive. I brush all the bees off the frames before I swap them.
105 viewsTaking the frame over to the nuc.
104 viewsThe compost bin hive. Lifting off the body. Love those hive bars.
102 viewsThey have pieced together the comb from the cutout the rubber bands are broken. I remove the bands. Check the cells and the queen is laying in them. I love this queen.
101 viewsAfter Just four days they have started to store honey. I didn't see a lot of eggs or a queen. But there were a lot of bees at the bottom of the nuc. I decided I would throw in a brood frame from one of my other hives.
101 viewsThis is a stash of honey and pollen . Not to bad. it was this one side of this frame the other side was filled with brood.
99 viewsNuc box from the swarm I picked up at American Heritage.
99 viewsThe runway for the duckbox hive. It looks just like Atlanta airport.