🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[cavemanrich]

Great number of bees in all the hives.

 

[WallyG74]

I see ya moose jokes! Whoever posted that pic of their hive entrance, THANK YOU! I need to install my entrance reducers.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

I see ya moose jokes! Whoever posted that pic of their hive entrance, THANK YOU! I need to install my entrance reducers.

LAST ONE!https://images.saymedia-content.com...el-or-how-jay-ward-returned-to-television.jpg

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Today blinding sunshine, 69F, no wind and black hive wraps. Bees are crazy flying in and out all day with pollen from somewhere. Still going strong at 3:30 PM. Still have 2-3 qrts of syrup on each. Did notice top feeders removed from hives 12 miles from here. Here locally I can count 5 hives, our 3, 1 with the couple we are helping and one I think is a lawn ornament as the home owner had the truck backed up and was planting bushes and shrubs in the tilled area.

 

[drstratton]

Currently 52° and s light breeze here today. The girls are still busy.

I need to wax two of the cedar hive boxes Dale built this summer. We will be using them as holders for the top insulation for the winter. I'll post pictures of that once we get to that point. He also cut a box down to use as spacers for the sugar blocks we will be putting in to feed the bees. So those also need to be waxed.

Can't find the roller I need for waxing the boxes. What a surprise!Now I have to go up into town and people ..lol I'm turning into such a hermit!

Spacers for sugar blocks.

 

[Sally PB]

Our latest bee club meeting was about setting up a "condensing" hive. So that's what we did today. The hive is insulated with 2" thick foam on all sides (4" on top of the cover) and propped up in back about 1.5" to make any condensation run down to the front and not drip on the bees.

 

[drstratton]

Our latest bee club meeting was about setting up a "condensing" hive. So that's what we did today. The hive is insulated with 2" thick foam on all sides (4" on top of the cover) and propped up in back about 1.5" to make any condensation run down to the front and not drip on the bees.

Nice. Our group went over that a couple of months ago. Dale is finally getting around to implementing it. It's been crazy busy here. We're pretty much just going to insulate the top and have burlap with shavings in it to help with the moisture. Which is what everyone in our local group does. I'd kind of like to wrap too. We will also be putting the wooden boards into our screened bottoms. And make sure they all have some slope to them.

 

[R2elk]

We will also be putting the wooden boards into our screened bottoms.

I recently read the recommendation to leave the bottom screen boards out all year long.

 

[drstratton]

I recently read the recommendation to leave the bottom screen boards out all year long.

For air flow?

 

[R2elk]

propped up in back about 1.5" to make any condensation run down to the front and not drip on the bees.

I build all of my hive stands to be a half bubble off level over a 4 foot level with the front of the stand being the lowest.