Inside The Hive.

[jdmidwest]

Cracked open the hive for its weekly visit today to see how things are going. A fellow beekeeper asked to see some pics to see if the girls are doing their job. They are making honey again, almost a frame on one side is new and soon to be capped. Several capped brood cells, the ones with the lighter tan cover on them. There is young bees in several life stages of development before they are capped to pupate, the white grub looking things in cells. Pollen is there too, it is the yellow cells around the brood cells.

Things are picking up with them. Still several hive beetles running around, working the frames made them jump off into the oil bath waiting below the screened bottom of the hive to their death.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Love your "shelf Support" idea on picture 3. Sounds like all is doing well.

[jdmidwest]

Love your "shelf Support" idea on picture 3. Sounds like all is doing well.

Not doing well, but better.

I had requisitioned the machine shop crew at the office to build me one based on my rough drawings. The were dragging their feet. I was at one of those cheap tool places and the thought hit me, picked up 2 of the clamps for about $4 bucks and used some 2x4's that I had made for a trolling motor stand. Works like a charm.