Thursday, June 10, 2010

June 10, 2010 - 8:00 am

It was 74º, clear skies and no breeze at the backyard hive.

Backyard Bees
I opened up the hive top feeder and found that the bees consumed about 2 gallons of the sugar water feed. Tomorrow I will mix up a fresh batch.

I looked at frame 8 and found that the bees have covered 1/4 of the frame and the queen has already put eggs in most of that space and the bees filled the remaining cells with nectar!. I looked at frame 7 and one side of the frame is partially drawn and had eggs and nectar and pollen. It looks like 6 and a half frames are drawn. I'll give them another week and then put another hive body on and that should help them.

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