{"id":351,"date":"2010-06-05T18:07:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T23:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linode.siwko.org\/wordpress\/?p=351"},"modified":"2010-06-05T18:07:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T23:07:12","slug":"2010-06-05-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Inspection 2010-06-05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noah and I went out to check the hive today after the split on Thursday.\u00a0 The new frame 7 was stripped of much of its foundation and there were rectangles of partially built comb falling off and some on the floor of the hive.\u00a0 I&#8217;m interested in the idea of letting the bees build their own comb without foundation so I&#8217;m not going to replace this frame.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see what happens with the bits that are left.<\/p>\n<p>This week I stumbled across this video on a beekeeping Trappist monk done by Virgina Currents:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=izvcXXoxQMQ\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=izvcXXoxQMQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It looks like his frames don&#8217;t have foundation on them, but perhaps there are wires.\u00a0 Interesting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20100605_6545-frame-2-out-queen-close-up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-355\" title=\"20100605_6545-frame-2-out-queen-close-up\" src=\"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20100605_6545-frame-2-out-queen-close-up.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back to the inspection.\u00a0 We found the queen on the outside of frame 2.<\/p>\n<p>When I opened the hive, a carpenter bee fell in.\u00a0 It was surrounded by bees immediately.\u00a0 I fished it out and one bee stuck with it for quite some time before it got away.<\/p>\n<p>I saw and killed two hive beetles in the top brood box.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve only got 5 frames up there now and the box is otherwise empty.\u00a0 I guess it&#8217;s hard to defend all that open space from the beetles.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/2010-06-05-inspection\/\">https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/2010-06-05-inspection\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah and I went out to check the hive today after the split on Thursday.\u00a0 The new frame 7 was stripped of much of its foundation and there were rectangles of partially built comb falling off and some on the floor of the hive.\u00a0 I&#8217;m interested in the idea of letting the bees build their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}