{"id":22115,"date":"2013-09-05T10:25:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T16:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22115"},"modified":"2013-09-05T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T16:25:06","slug":"bee-diary-addenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22115","title":{"rendered":"Bee Diary:  Addenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0New (Harvest) Moon<\/p>\n<p>Five of the six honey supers contain little or no honey and are cleaned up, ready for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMAG0705.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21614\" alt=\"IMAG0705\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMAG0705-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMAG0705-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMAG0705-1024x577.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>storage. \u00a0I set them along the fence to let the bees that are in them return to the colony. \u00a0Lower dewpoint makes for so much more comfort inside the bee suit. \u00a0A happier experience.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth super, which had a lot of uncapped honey a couple of weeks ago has 5 frame sides capped, the rest uncapped. \u00a0The queen excluder came off and the super went back on as winter stores for the hive. \u00a0We can change this decision of course, but it seems wise to let the bees have a surplus rather than a shortage.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the resistance work I do three times a week lifting the supers up and down, then, as I did in all visits to the colony, back up onto the increasingly tall hive structure challenges me. \u00a0Four colonies might be more than I can reasonably handle. \u00a0Besides, what would we do with 340 pounds of honey?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0New (Harvest) Moon Five of the six honey supers contain little or no honey and are cleaned up, ready for storage. \u00a0I set them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bee Diary:  Addenda<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22118,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22115\/revisions\/22118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}