No Bees yet.

Let's be careful out there.


We saw these guys at The Haunt for Lil Griffs 21 BDay. Twas Cool

Wild Honeybees... independent, not beholden to the man, living free the way of the ancients.

Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: A Deadly Pest Has Reached North America

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020...y=90&auto=webp

We're gonna need a bigger boat....

I did a hive inspection today. Lots of brood, wax being drawn, and honey being collected. They were super calm, very industrious, and no aggression at all.

When the combs are vertical how to they fill them with honey and seal it before the honey leaks out? :confused:

That's a good question... surface tension?

The row of cells in the left picture looks like they were filled and sealed on a slant.
Maybe when they spit the honey out it isn't liquid yet, more like the center in a chocolate covered cherry, then
after it's sealed up the chemistry makes it liquid.
The right hand picture shows cells not full but apparently not leaking... of course they wouldn't in this position.:smack:

I'm curious about the one that's sealed with a little hole in the middle.
Maybe like a water fountain or snack bar to give the girls energy

You're looking at a brood frame, a mix of open larvae and capped larvae. I didn't photograph any of the capped honey frames. The frame they're drawing wax on will be a honey frame.

OK, those two frames are brood frames, then they seal the eggs in the cells until they grow up?

You got it.

My beekeeping friend posted this after checking her hives the other day

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Lil' Pete did a whole honeycomb series of design projects in college, bees be fascinating.

Honeyland

The viscosity of honey causes coiling...