Another Bee Update
This is a picture from the inspection of the hive last week.
Things are coming along nicely in there. The new brood box doesn't contain as much brood as I'd like, but they have almost completely filled it with honey. It weighs an absolute tonne!
The new super I put on a week before is looking good. They have half draw out the honeycomb, and have even started to put some honey in there.
Just to give some idea of the task they have when drawing out new comb and filling it with honey........A bee needs to visit 1 million flowers to make a pound of honey. The bees then eat this honey and secrete wax from glands in their head to make the honeycomb. They need to eat 3 pounds of honey to make 1 pound of wax. That's a lot of honey and wax before they have even started to fill they comb with honey. Thankfully there is a lot of flowers and nectar around at the moment .
I'm intending to go and inspect the bees again tomorrow, so it will be interesting to see how much honey they have put in the new super. I've bought a second new super just in case they really get moving.
In the picture, the white area around the outside of the frame is capped honey, and the spotty bits in the middle are the brood. One of the brood was hatching while I was there, which was nice.
Things are coming along nicely in there. The new brood box doesn't contain as much brood as I'd like, but they have almost completely filled it with honey. It weighs an absolute tonne!
The new super I put on a week before is looking good. They have half draw out the honeycomb, and have even started to put some honey in there.
Just to give some idea of the task they have when drawing out new comb and filling it with honey........A bee needs to visit 1 million flowers to make a pound of honey. The bees then eat this honey and secrete wax from glands in their head to make the honeycomb. They need to eat 3 pounds of honey to make 1 pound of wax. That's a lot of honey and wax before they have even started to fill they comb with honey. Thankfully there is a lot of flowers and nectar around at the moment .
I'm intending to go and inspect the bees again tomorrow, so it will be interesting to see how much honey they have put in the new super. I've bought a second new super just in case they really get moving.
In the picture, the white area around the outside of the frame is capped honey, and the spotty bits in the middle are the brood. One of the brood was hatching while I was there, which was nice.
