🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[drstratton]

It's kind of hard to take a photo of the bees clustering in a slatted rack, looking into the entrance. They aren't bearding, just hanging out in the rack until they can go back out and forage.
This is bearding!

That's an amazing amount of bees.

As I said, I have seen bearding on other people's hives but not on my own hives.

We had some that hung out on the entry board. When we added the shade cover and screened bottom boards, that pretty much stopped.

 

[Apis mellifera]

That's an amazing amount of bees.

Thats how you get a lot of supers filled real fast.

 

[drstratton]

We will be home on Saturday. We have to attend a memorial service, for a dear friend. So, we probably won't have time to feed the bees until Sunday. We will probably remove the supers, depending on how well capped they are.

We leave again on Monday and will be back on Friday. Then, we'll mite test all 4 hives. I hope the counts will be low.

Not sure what day we will extract. We have to take DIL & grandbaby's to the airport on the 6th, they fly out on the 7th. Then back home and no more running around for awhile. We have soooo much that needs to be done at our place.

 

[drstratton]

Thats how you get a lot of supers filled real fast.

I can believe that!