Fooling With Bees On my Day Off!

JP · August 16, 2010, 03:32:57 AM

I set this young lady up this season with four frames of bees that are now in two deeps and two mediums. She has pulled two mediums worth of honey from this hive!

I also set her up with five frames of bees in late May I want to say. They are in three boxes. A deep and two mediums.

This second hive grew honey bound and swarmed I would say within the last two days.

We housed this swarm today in a five frame deep nuc and went through both hives.

It was hot as heck!

...JP

Honey Bee Swarm On Sunday

skflyfish · August 16, 2010, 08:29:37 AM

Nice one JP!

The 'march' was amazing.

Loved the urban Buff Orpingtons too.

Jay

AllenF · August 16, 2010, 09:41:54 AM

That was a great video, and I loved the music on this one. It is amazing how long you can pull honey from the bees in your area. Our honey season here is over.

VolunteerK9 · August 16, 2010, 10:11:29 AM

I'm still snickering about the red umbrella. Your turning in to quite the video editor now..music,sound effects, etc. Pretty darned cool

What song is that playing around 6:15? Ive heard it before on another video of yours and like it .

JP · August 16, 2010, 10:29:11 AM

Volunteer, its called "Acoustic Sunrise".

...JP

hardwood · August 16, 2010, 08:06:31 PM

Ok, let me get this straight. The hive swarmed in the last day or two and when you went through the hive they already had a mated and laying queen? Man them are some good bees!

Scott

P.S. Peggy says that since you got divorced and all...Bonnie might be a good prospect! :-D

JP · August 16, 2010, 08:23:21 PM

Scott, all I can tell you as that I saw this same queen in the hive three different times. She wasn't as big as the one in the swarm but she was searching cells to lay. I saw some eggs and very small larvae.

Do you remember the swarm at Bud's? The new queen was laying in there as well.

I'll make sure and tell my wife what you said, er, what Peggy said. ;)

...JP