Some Pass, Some Fail. It's Better to be Safe then Sorry. 5-24-24

Some pass inspection and some do not, that means I check some again tomorrow or the next day. Blessed Days...

[@SaltyBeeLady]

~aka~Sharon 💛🍯🐝

[@dcsblessedbees]

Morning Sharon, I Hope your weekend is going well.

[@noahsarkansashomestead]

OK, checking for cells to make sure your new queens wont swarm on you. Do you ever put queen excluders on your bottom board ? Have a great day DC. 😁🌞👍

[@dcsblessedbees]

I tried that once with a cell builder, but if you put an excluder under them with out giving them an upper entrance you end up trapping all the drones inside. Also in this instance, I am check for queen cells so the bees wont kill the new mated queens. But ya the same process, making bees grumpy.😂Blessed Days Noah.

[@honeybees1970]

Hows the honey crop coming along? My hive 4 has a full deep 10 frame super of honey and nectar, im hoping to harvest before august this year may-bee

[@dcsblessedbees]

Not atm and may not be much this year. It's looking like I may have to split my only real good colony right before out major flow, so that'll lessen their production potential a good bit. But we will see. Thanks for stopping by, I Hope you have a great Sunday.👍

[@richardrbrynerjr.7912]

Looks like your insulation is not working! The bees are unable to seal the top and create that heat bubble they need! So then they eat more resources to keep the place air condition the way they need it so your progress is slow!

[@dcsblessedbees]

I know many don't like my venting but with out adequate venting my hives produce NW SLIME. It appears most people do not realize the amount of rain I get. They got maybe an inch of rain dumped on them over the last 2 days. Everything stays wet with out venting and then my bees slime themselves out... These are just small starts they should actually be in nucs, but I didn't want to spend time re boxing them. We are in Spring going into Summer we we are not getting cold at night. The night really not much below the mid 40's anymore. Richard, I appreciate your input but disagree that my insulation/inner covers are not working, they are working just how I intended them. They do cluster up closing off the opening, allowing the excess moisture to escape. With out venting slime starts and just continues to make a mess. Now the opening could be smaller, but as you can see they are just taped together. Now if I was in a colder or dryer climate you are 110% correct, in those cases I would be doing something totally different. Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Blessed Days Richard. Hey how is that new swarm doing?

[@richardrbrynerjr.7912]

@@dcsblessedbees Nice bees, they swarmed into a new 6 frame Layens hive!

[@AnneHeyns]

Tomorrow might be a better outcome.

[@dcsblessedbees]

Part of the process, the bees can be trixey😁 Normally I have completed these check before the Queens get here but I got the bees later then I had planned so we improvise.😁Blessed Days...