Jay came over and we looked at the hive and talked for a while about bees.\u00a0 The video is 14 minutes which I know is way too long for you to watch, so I sped it up to 4X.\u00a0 You get a full inspection in only three and a half minutes.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n
<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nToday I took the two funny shaped combs and moved them to the back of the hive with some space around them.\u00a0 My hope is that the brood will hatch and the bees will clean out this comb and replace it with straighter comb.<\/p>\nI’ve noticed that the comb curves off the guide at one end of the bar.\u00a0 You can see a corner of unsupported comb falling off in the video.\u00a0 I put it on top of the hive then brought it in and put it on a plate.\u00a0 John said it tasted very nice.\u00a0 What I’m wondering is whether I made my triangle guides too short.<\/p>\nI also noticed that the bees are resisting the guides and building farther out.\u00a0 Maybe they’ve finished with brood and want to move to honey spacing?\u00a0 I’ve also noticed that they started two combs on the bar at the back (the first one you see in the video).\u00a0 Maybe I need to paint the triangles with wax.\u00a0 It seemed to work for the center bars.<\/p>\nI still need to number the bars for reference.\u00a0 I saw three large hive beetles.\u00a0 I got one of them with the hive tool.\u00a0 Maybe I need a real roof?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay came over and we looked at the hive and talked for a while about bees.\u00a0 The video is 14 minutes which I know is way too long for you to watch, so I sped it up to 4X.\u00a0 You get a full inspection in only three and a half minutes.\u00a0 Enjoy! Today I took […]<\/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-514","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\/514"}],"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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Today I took the two funny shaped combs and moved them to the back of the hive with some space around them.\u00a0 My hope is that the brood will hatch and the bees will clean out this comb and replace it with straighter comb.<\/p>\n
I’ve noticed that the comb curves off the guide at one end of the bar.\u00a0 You can see a corner of unsupported comb falling off in the video.\u00a0 I put it on top of the hive then brought it in and put it on a plate.\u00a0 John said it tasted very nice.\u00a0 What I’m wondering is whether I made my triangle guides too short.<\/p>\n
I also noticed that the bees are resisting the guides and building farther out.\u00a0 Maybe they’ve finished with brood and want to move to honey spacing?\u00a0 I’ve also noticed that they started two combs on the bar at the back (the first one you see in the video).\u00a0 Maybe I need to paint the triangles with wax.\u00a0 It seemed to work for the center bars.<\/p>\n
I still need to number the bars for reference.\u00a0 I saw three large hive beetles.\u00a0 I got one of them with the hive tool.\u00a0 Maybe I need a real roof?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jay came over and we looked at the hive and talked for a while about bees.\u00a0 The video is 14 minutes which I know is way too long for you to watch, so I sped it up to 4X.\u00a0 You get a full inspection in only three and a half minutes.\u00a0 Enjoy! Today I took […]<\/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-514","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\/514"}],"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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}