5 weeks since the hive landed, and it's doing great. Next week the first foraging bees who came from eggs laid here should emerge. Exciting.
Today we opened up all 3 boxes and went through all but 2 frames before charlie was called away.
We saw the queen, but didn't take pictures. Watched her lay a couple of eggs. Very cool.
The foundationless frames in the top box are still untouched, and the bees are starting to draw out the 2 frames that DO have foundation. Fine by me.
In the middle box, all of the foundationless frames are being drawn out, between 15 and 80% done. Average is probably around 60% drawn out. That's good news.
In the hive body, i was able to scrape wax and jostle all the frames apart enough to add a 10th frame. It's totally foundationless, and I didn't add any guides or anything. We'll see how it goes next week. Might have to retry that one. It's between 2 brood combs, so hopefully it'll get drawn out nice and straight.
No stings and not even any angry bees that I saw. Love this hive.
-tmk
WHOA! You watched her lay eggs???????? Um...I would like video next time please! What does "draw out" mean? What's a brood comb? And um....a foundation. Heh. I need a bee dictionary :)
ReplyDelete-Sam