{"id":522,"date":"2011-07-06T06:49:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linode.siwko.org\/wordpress\/?p=522"},"modified":"2011-07-06T06:49:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T11:49:09","slug":"2011-06-24-some-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"2011-06-24 Some Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleanup time!  I took out some wonky comb.  The bees are building across top bars.  Comb with brood I put in to the back of the hive.  We didn&#8217;t need the honey so I set it on a plate and put a Langstroth super up on the front end of the hive.  Here&#8217;s the plate with the comb on it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6eEdfKl1y-0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the super from the outside:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110624_0251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-523 alignnone\" title=\"2011-06-24 Super on Top\" src=\"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110624_0251-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that the super hangs off the sides of the top bars.\u00a0 The next bars that I cut will be an inch longer so that standard Langstroth equipment will work with it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure the details, but it would be useful if I could both rest equipment on the top bar as in this picture and hang the top bar in place of a frame.\u00a0 I think an adapter is in order.<\/p>\n<p>The brood comb I set in the back of the hive followed by a view of the inside of the hive:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HKpudr3-QB8?hl=en&#038;fs=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This technique seems to be pretty successful in that the bees will clean up the comb and I don&#8217;t find new brood back there.  They do put in some nectar and fix the comb to the box.  They also built some new comb nearby on a top bar and there, I found some SHB back there:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9bvSddBMZpg?hl=en&#038;fs=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t appear to be strong throughout the hive which is good, after last year, I&#8217;m still nervous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleanup time! I took out some wonky comb. The bees are building across top bars. Comb with brood I put in to the back of the hive. We didn&#8217;t need the honey so I set it on a plate and put a Langstroth super up on the front end of the hive. Here&#8217;s the plate [&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-522","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\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}