That was the best honey I have ever had! The pieces of comb we had to remove off the top of the frames served some use. Looking at these pictures, there are so many bees. And hopefully no one gets stung twice. Once is good for the experience but repeatedly will just be plain awful.
We checked the hive on Thursday looking for the queen and to see if the bees started pulling out the comb on the second brood box we recently added. A few slides were almost completely filled with pollen and some with honey. Also, we did not see any larvae or the queen but noticed that a few queen cells were built.
we went and saw the bees on thursday! We noticed that there were a lot of drones in and around the bee hive. We also believe that the hive is trying to make a new queen and that the queen that came with the bees was not fertile enough. The worker bees are busy and the comb is already being established. zach even tasted some of the comb to see if the honey was any good. He says it was. Can't wait to go back and see if they have establised a new queen!
We recently checked on the bees and although the colony still seems to be thriving we had difficulty locating eggs. We did however find what could be the makings of new queens. This is very interesting and requires more observations.
Last thursday was the day I experienced the best honey I have ever had. The comb we had to remove from the top of the frame had a good deal of honey in it. The bee hive is about out of our hands. We'll just continue watching nature take its course.
We believe that the queen may have been artificially inseminated improperly. We did not see an signs of larva being produced. We only saw the production of drone combs, which are capped domes that vary in color from the honey,and we saw what we belive may be queen combs forming. This is a clear sign of a superseizure. You can see a photo of these "queen" combs in the pictures above. When we searched for the queen we noticed another large be that we believe may be a new queen. It's body was much larger then the other bee, and it had an enlarged thorax. It may possibly have been a drone because i noticed that even though it had a larger thorax it was covered in a layer of hair, which normally on other queens this spot is hairless. If you look closely at the photo third from the bottom, with the bees clustered on the top of the frame, in the middle you can see the potienial queen or possible drone we saw. It has larger wings and is visibally larger then the other bees.
The bees are definitely getting used to their new surroundings. They are visibly more active and you can see them flying out to the fields to gather their nectar and back to the hive again. It seems as if they are creating a new queen, which I guess is a good thing, although the first queen wasn’t sufficiently artificially inseminated, at least we know that the bees approve of their hive and location enough to simply induct a new queen, and remain in the same place. Hopefully, they will start to make some larvae, and our bee colony will grow soon!
That was the best honey I have ever had! The pieces of comb we had to remove off the top of the frames served some use. Looking at these pictures, there are so many bees. And hopefully no one gets stung twice. Once is good for the experience but repeatedly will just be plain awful.
ReplyDeleteWe checked the hive on Thursday looking for the queen and to see if the bees started pulling out the comb on the second brood box we recently added. A few slides were almost completely filled with pollen and some with honey. Also, we did not see any larvae or the queen but noticed that a few queen cells were built.
ReplyDeletewe went and saw the bees on thursday! We noticed that there were a lot of drones in and around the bee hive. We also believe that the hive is trying to make a new queen and that the queen that came with the bees was not fertile enough. The worker bees are busy and the comb is already being established. zach even tasted some of the comb to see if the honey was any good. He says it was. Can't wait to go back and see if they have establised a new queen!
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We recently checked on the bees and although the colony still seems to be thriving we had difficulty locating eggs. We did however find what could be the makings of new queens. This is very interesting and requires more observations.
ReplyDeleteLast thursday was the day I experienced the best honey I have ever had. The comb we had to remove from the top of the frame had a good deal of honey in it. The bee hive is about out of our hands. We'll just continue watching nature take its course.
ReplyDeleteWe believe that the queen may have been artificially inseminated improperly. We did not see an signs of larva being produced. We only saw the production of drone combs, which are capped domes that vary in color from the honey,and we saw what we belive may be queen combs forming. This is a clear sign of a superseizure. You can see a photo of these "queen" combs in the pictures above. When we searched for the queen we noticed another large be that we believe may be a new queen. It's body was much larger then the other bee, and it had an enlarged thorax. It may possibly have been a drone because i noticed that even though it had a larger thorax it was covered in a layer of hair, which normally on other queens this spot is hairless. If you look closely at the photo third from the bottom, with the bees clustered on the top of the frame, in the middle you can see the potienial queen or possible drone we saw. It has larger wings and is visibally larger then the other bees.
ReplyDeleteThe bees are definitely getting used to their new surroundings. They are visibly more active and you can see them flying out to the fields to gather their nectar and back to the hive again. It seems as if they are creating a new queen, which I guess is a good thing, although the first queen wasn’t sufficiently artificially inseminated, at least we know that the bees approve of their hive and location enough to simply induct a new queen, and remain in the same place. Hopefully, they will start to make some larvae, and our bee colony will grow soon!
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