After the last inspection of Honey 2 and discovering that the hive didn’t have a functioning Queen, we decided that the best approach was to merge the hive with Honey 1. Thus making Honey 3 (only kidding). We thought this would the best way for the remaining Bees to live longer and join they old [...]
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Merging Honey 1+2=3??
27 March 2010Honey 2 Inspection
26 March 2010Inspected the hive today, we had noticed that the landing board has been very quiet lately, so we suspected all was not well inside the hive. The have had two full boxes, and the Bees haven’t done anything with the new top box that was placed over one month ago. Got down to the bottom [...]
Honey 2 – first inspection
2 January 2010Observed from a distance since being placed, honey 2 was quite quiet. Over the following days you could see that there was more activity so I decided to inspect today. First frames are empty but the girls are definitely cleaning the foundation wax. As I went further into the hive, which incidently has only one [...]
Honey 2
24 December 2009All preparation is key when conducting an inspection. I brought down a new full-depth hive and frames so as to replace the ones removed from Honey 1. Gary had made the concrete pads a while back in anticipation of more hives, we hadn’t thought that we’d need them so soon, however the bees are dictating [...]
