Seven To Twelve In One Day, Only 1 Sting.

[jdmidwest]

It was a nice cool day on Sunday so I decided to make some more splits and increase the hive count. I took frames out of a few of the hives at the house and made 3 nuc hives to increase my count at the house to 7. Things went well and I only suffered one sting to the forearm, I mashed one and it stung thru the suit.

Off to the farm and I halved the other 2 hives that I had been meaning to split out there increasing the number to 5 there. The other one that I took out a few weeks before was doing well and working fine. I hosed the new location down with some roundup to kill the poison ivy that was sprouting up all around them.

This spring has been pretty good for the bees, lots of blooming stuff and plenty of bees in the hives. The hives are full of bees and brood. They have even drawn out the honey supers and it looks like I will be making honey after all this summer. Probably 20 or 30 pounds if I am estimating right, a few gallons.

Here are a few pics of the hives. Green is the color of the year, I picked up a gallon of good exterior latex paint for $5. It was in the mistint section and cheap enough. Anything looks better than a plain ole white box and it goes good with the cedar. I have started making simplier hives for production at the farm, they are hidden where you can't see them anyway. Quicker to build too and cheaper.