Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Super on hive 2

Bought 2 more boxes from va bee supply, Added another 8-frame deep box to hive 2. We put a plastic queen excluder under it. Those bees have fully drawn the comb in the 2nd story and brood chamber is like a big half circle in those frames. Really looking good. Removed Boardman feeder.

In hive one, The queen was out of the cage, just some workers had got in. Pulled the screen off and released them. Did not add box yet.

Friday, June 13, 2014

New queen in hive one

Installed new queen yesterday. Italian hygienic, $35 shipped by us mail. They have a green mailer envelope just for this purpose, L picked her up at the post office and put the cage in the hive.
Guaranteed to arrive alive and lay eggs within 10 days.