Hello all! Yesterday was a great day – warm and sunny. Had a great visit with the bees. Lots of activity and yes, many more bees are in the hive now. FOTB Greg was there to capture the action as we did a full hive inspection frame by frame. Mellie makes an appearance, as well as some burr comb. I added the second hive body so ‘Mellie’s House’ is fully complete.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ4QD0UD_OI
Link to the video at YouTube directly here
Also, I added a new poll on the side – about how you feel about bees / beekeeping in your own lives. Please take a second to record your thoughts / opinions for all of us to see!
Hope all is well with all of you – If you have a moment, let me know your thoughts on the video and on the podcast.. I’ve been tweaking sound settings and would love to know what you think.
Regards,
Will
Love this! Thanks for sharing.
Is that stuff hanging off the bottom of the frame burr comb? I still don’t know what I’m looking for when it comes to that stuff?
Yep, it was.. They had added a good amount on that frame.. You can see me removing a bunch that they had connected between two frames. I removed the clumps from the bottom of the frames too… Just didn’t make it into the video. Unfortunately YouTube limit of ten mins means a lot of editing. 🙂
Will
I was wondering what kind of bees are you using. I had used Italians and my local beekeeping association was trying to get their members to convert over to Russians. The Italians were mean! They’d attack the smoker.
My girls are Italian- and they are very gentle. I’m sure they vary from family to family though 🙂
Are you using a very cool smoke? I know that if the smoke is still very warm, the bees are threatened by it. I’ve had success with dry leaves as a tinder, some rotted wood and rolled up cardboard. After getting that going I let it die out and then it smolders as a cool white smoke. I’m looking forward to trying burlap though.
Regards
Will