Sunday, May 6, 2012

Update

I checked the hive today.  The bees have been busy!!  The brood super was about 65% full, so I went ahead and put on the honey super.

I was pretty sure they had been pretty busy.  There has been a virtual swarm of workers on the front of the hive for at least the last week.  Here are some pix:

This is a frame from the brood super.  Notice the full size of most of the comb on the frame, and if you look closely you can see some honey in the cells!  It was practically dripping out!

This is the other side of the same frame.  Notice the capped cells of honey already.  This super has been on for about 5 weeks now.  Like I said, they have been busy!

I'm not sure why they are building out these connectors so far into the space between frames, but they are.



I am pointing at the honey super.  I did put in the queen excluder.  We'll see how it goes.