Thursday, July 2, 2009

Second honey super on the "yellow" hive

Today, the Young Beekeeper and I and three young aides opened up the hives, and sure enough, it's evident that the "red" hive swarmed, which is to say, is no longer packed with bees. This hive has just begun to raise comb in their honey super. The "yellow" hive, by contrast, is full of bees, and they have raised comb, filled and capped all the way to the outer frames in their first honey super. We gave that hive a second honey super, which we placed directly above the second brood super, and we placed the first-given honey super on top of the second honey super. If they can fill a honey super that fast, we must look again in ten days, and if that's full, we can give them a third honey super, and after that, we will be all out of supers, and must extract before we can proceed.

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