September musings:
We were hoping to see a little more action in Hive IQ; both hives were bringing in boatloads of pollen and we saw many orientation flights, so we had expected that both hives would be drawing comb and putting up some honey...
Our Sweinty hive WAS putting up honey--but they had continued to put it into old comb and also into the plastic black frames that we use for helping them draw the comb straight. Go figure!
It was time to remove the third deep on both hives, so we consolidated their stores and harvested honey: two frames of honey to share with Hive IQ and two frames for us.
We added a deep syrup feeder to Hive IQ and filled it up twice. These bees also received a pollen patty to boost their stores. We left the feeder in after the temps dropped to be in place for next spring. Fingers crossed that this new hive will winter over well.
We did another round of honey harvesting, this time another variation-not crush and strain, but scrape and strain-with the two 8 pound plastic frames. Not too bad!
We were hoping to see a little more action in Hive IQ; both hives were bringing in boatloads of pollen and we saw many orientation flights, so we had expected that both hives would be drawing comb and putting up some honey...
Our Sweinty hive WAS putting up honey--but they had continued to put it into old comb and also into the plastic black frames that we use for helping them draw the comb straight. Go figure!
It was time to remove the third deep on both hives, so we consolidated their stores and harvested honey: two frames of honey to share with Hive IQ and two frames for us.
We added a deep syrup feeder to Hive IQ and filled it up twice. These bees also received a pollen patty to boost their stores. We left the feeder in after the temps dropped to be in place for next spring. Fingers crossed that this new hive will winter over well.
We did another round of honey harvesting, this time another variation-not crush and strain, but scrape and strain-with the two 8 pound plastic frames. Not too bad!
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