Ranch rodeo

Yesterday we went to a ranch rodeo, it was okay and I got some pictures of people getting bucked off the broncs. Here's a few pictures.

Danny

Inspection

On Tuesday we inspected my hives, my brother didn't get many photos but both hives were thriving. Here's a picture of a newly drawn foundation.

This picture was taken by D.J.

Danny

Bee pictures

Here's a few pictures of my bees I took.

A bee crawling into the entrance.

A picture of part of the entrance on hive two.

A picture of hive two.

A picture of hive one.

Danny

Inspection

Yesterday we inspected my hives. They were doing quite well. One hive is quite a bit more aggressive than the other but they're both very fun to look at. Here's the pictures. The reason there are no pictures of the second hive is because it chased the cameraman all over the backyard last time we inspected.

Opening up the hive

A frame of foundation that the bees are drawing out.

Me holding up a frame of freshly drawn foundation.

Again, all pictures were taken by D.J.

Danny

Inspection

On Monday we inspected my hives. They were doing quite well and were storing pollen and nectar. Today they're really active so that's good. Here's the pictures.

The inner cover, the bees built some burr comb on it that I later scraped off.

A frame of foundation that the bees are drawing out.

Dad smoking the bees.

An abandoned supersedure cell. The lump thing near the center of the picture is the supersedure cell.

A frame of bees, brood, and pollen.

Another frame of foundation and nectar/honey that the bees are drawing out.

A picture of some bees eating the mega bee patty.

A bee loaded with pollen on dad's leg. (The globs of yellow on the bee's legs is the pollen)

Another frame of bees and brood.

All of the above pictures were taken by my brother, D.J.

Danny

Inspection

Today we inspected my hives. They were doing really well and were drawing out their foundation really good. They were also storing quite a bit of nectar/honey. I couldn't spot any eggs, but I'm not very good at it. Here's the pictures.

Smoking the frames. This is after we removed the frame feeder.

A frame of foundation that the bees are starting to draw out. They even have some nectar/honey in it.

Me holding a frame.

As you can see this frame had quite a bit of capped brood. The brown/tan capping are brood.

Holding another frame that had been drawn out, this frame had some double layered comb on it.

I broke the double layered comb off and found that the bees had stored quite a bit of nectar/honey under it.

Another frame. The bullet shaped cells near the bottom beside my glove are drone cells.

A frame of brood. It had a tight pattern so I'm happy with it.

I spotted the queen in the second hive so I had D.J. take a picture of her. She's the one that is bigger than the rest of the bees.

All of the above pictures were taken by D.J.

Danny

Installation pictures

Awhile ago I installed my other nuc but I haven't gotten around to posting any pictures yet so here they are.

Taking a frame out of the nuc.

A frame of bees. I'm not sure what was in this frame because the bees made it difficult to see what was in it.

I'm not sure what to do with this frame. The bottom is missing but the comb seems to be held in place quite well. Any suggestions?


A picture of the whole frame.

A bee trying to avoid the chaos back at the hive.

All pictures were taken by my brother D.J.

Danny