5 days in…
Checked in on the bees today. Absolutely amazed at how much they have accomplished in just 5 days. Feeling like quite the underachiever in comparison.
Boathouse Hive
In each of the hives, they have started building out the comb on 4 frames already. That’s a lot of work. Today we could see capped honey cells, brood cells, and drone cells as well.
Did you know?
Queen bees are painted with a dot to make them easier to find. The colour of the dot indicates the year the queens were born. The Barracks queen is red, so she’s a 2018. The Boathouse queen is green so she’s from 2019. She’s visible in one of the pictures above. Can you find her? 🙂
No stings but Jean was a bit displeased.
I bet!!!!!
Looks good. I preffered using foundation rather than letting them make their own.
Be sure that if you don’t overwinter them that you make sure that they are all dead before you start extracting the honey.
I drove home from our property with two boxes of bees supposedly dead that revived and by the time we reached home there was 2 inches of bees on the back window of our Volkswagen.
Yikes! That’s wild. Did you get stung?
We are going to try to help them survive the winter which may be crazy, given that it’s awfully cold here for 6 months of the year…
That is provided that they don’t swarm and take off this week…
or next week 🙂