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    Hive Update

    Since the field day I have been over to check on what I am referring to as the "double hive", or the one we combined. I am calling it the double hive because in two weeks' time the bees have not chewed through the newspaper, so the two hives are operating separately, but one on top of the other. Since the top hive was the weak one, I tried to put sugar water on it. I did successfully put a bucket of sugar water on the hive, but I was not satisfied that they had enough empty comb to put it in if they stayed separate from the hive below. So, I tried to remove the bucket of sugar water a few days after placing it, so I could put a box of drawn comb on the hive. When I went to move it, the

    September Field Day

    Here is a nice picture of the queen in the vertical hive we combined with the horizontal hive. Thanks to Kelly Bolthouse for taking the picture! This queen was actually in the top box, in the first frame we pulled out. Another lesson in "the bees don't read the books" and the queen can be absolutely ANYWHERE in the hive. This hive really didn't have any honey stores to speak of. Neither did the horizontal hive. Both had queens and as you see in the picture, brood, in all stages. We took the bees from the horizontal hive, only six frames worth, and put them in the middle of a medium box with empty comb on the sides. We laid a sheet of newspaper on top of the vertical hive's top box an

    What to do in September

    Today I checked the hives. It has been about three weeks since the last field day and the goldenrod flow is in full swing. The two hives shown above are what I will call hive #1 and hive #2, the first being the horizontal hive and the second being the vertical hive. Hive #1 literally looked the same as it did three weeks ago. No growth, no capped honey, only small amounts of wet nectar. Some brood, both capped and open, but not a lot, and only covering around six or seven medium frames in a deep box, which they have not extended at all. I saw the queen, as I have each time I have inspected that hive. That hive as it is cannot survive the winter. It has no stores. It would make no di

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