Summer\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Grandchildren Moon<\/p>\n
Hive inspections today focused on the need for additional honey supers.\u00a0 The package colony had the third hive box about 80% drawn out with honey and brood, so I stuck a honey super on it.\u00a0 The divide has two hive boxes.\u00a0 As Dave suggested when he came out a week ago Tuesday, I had left the queen excluder off.\u00a0 I put it back on today, carefully checking both honey supers to see if the queen had gone up into them.\u00a0 She hadn’t.\u00a0 At least I don’t think so.\u00a0 She has a mark and I didn’t see one on any of the bees, but I did see a large, unusual looking darker backed bee.\u00a0 Sort a bee goliath.\u00a0 Probably a drone.\u00a0 The divide bees have not done much in the two empty supers, so we’ll have to see.\u00a0 I may stick a frame from a parent colony super in one of the divide’s supers.<\/p>\n
The parent colony has done a good bit of work.\u00a0 One honey super filled up a while ago.\u00a0 The second one I put on with it has begun to take on weight.\u00a0 The other two have a good bit of drawn comb, but not much weight yet.\u00a0 A filled honey super weighs around 50 pounds, plenty for this guy to lift.<\/p>\n
I did take one full frame out of the honey super already filled and replaced it with an empty one.\u00a0 The full frame will be part of the Woolly meal on Monday night.\u00a0 Just what we’ll use it for is not yet decided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summer\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Grandchildren Moon Hive inspections today focused on the need for additional honey supers.\u00a0 The package colony had the third hive box about 80% drawn out with honey and brood, so I stuck a honey super on it.\u00a0 The divide has two hive boxes.\u00a0 As Dave suggested when he came out a week ago … Continue reading Bee Diary: July 17, 2010<\/span>