10 September, 2011

It was about 83º at the Bee Yard in the country.

Beta Hive
The hive had two honey supers. I removed nine frames from one super and 2 frames from the second honey super. I left the remaining frames in the super and added empty frames to fill it up.

Back Yard Bees

Epsilon Hive
The hive had two honey supers. I removed both honey supers.

Eta Hive
No activity from hive. Will look into it tomorrow.

Zeta Hive
Fair amount of activity, will look into that hive tomorrow.


Extracted the honey and it fills the 5 gallon honey bucket to the top lip. I will let it settle and bottle honey on Monday or so.

The harvest filled 26 pint jars and 8 quart jars.


Eta Hive is no more. The hive failed to flourish for whatever reason. I will keep a closer watch on the remaining hives

3 July, 2011

It was 96 degrees at the Backyard Bees.

Epsilon

Zeta

Eta

Honey Harvest from June 26, 2011

The harvest from June 26 yielded 25 pint jars and 5 quart jars of honey. Thats about 45 pounds of honey.

Colors of the Honey harvest 2011

Variety of colors of honey harvested this year.

Honey Harvest

Here's some photos...

26 June, 1:30 pm - 2011

It was 90º at the Bee Yard, no wind and partly cloudy

Beta Hive
Somehow I overlooked there being three honey supers on this hive. Two were ready for harvest today so I grabbed them. The third honey super has curing honey in about 80% of the frames, and I added another super. So now this hive has two honey supers.

I did not inspect the hive at this time.


BackYard Bees
Replaced feeder jars for the Eta & Zeta Hives and I put deep hive bodies with lids to cover the jars to prevent rain water from entering.

I did not inspect the hives at this time.

13 June - 2011

11 am Back Yard Bees

Zeta Hive
Looks like the queen has settled in, the girls are busy building comb and storing food.

Eta Hive
Replaced the bottom board with a screened bottom board to help with cooling.