The Honey Factory

[karenerwin]

All of the above pictures are from the 1st brood box. I did not take out all of the frames. I did finally get stung for the first time. I think she got under my (short sleeve) shirt sleeve and stung me when the fabric pulled or something.

 

[karenerwin]

This is what the top of the bottom box looked like after I removed the upper box. I tore a lot of the comb that was built between the 2 boxes. I don’t know if these were drone cells or what.

 

[karenerwin]

This is looking down through the upper box at the top of the frames in he lower box.

 

[karenerwin]

All of these pictures are from the frames from the upper box. I didn’t take any pictures from the super because there isn’t much of anything going on in there yet.

 

[electrycmonk]

That is alot of activity! My word that's awesome.

 

[duluthralphie]

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All of these pictures are from the frames from the upper box. I didn’t take any pictures from the super because there isn’t much of anything going on in there yet.

My expert opinion is you have more than 300 bees

 

[duluthralphie]

My first honey factory might have hit a snag..

 

[shawluvsbirds]

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Sooo... What's going on there?

 

[duluthralphie]

Sooo... What's going on there?

I am not sure. I think those are queen cells, supercedure and swarm cells.

but I think I see uncapped larva too.

 

[karenerwin]

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Hopefully those are just drone cells!!
I bet R2elk will be able to answer that question!