What a mess!

[Spear]

I opened up my hives today for the 1st time so I could put the plastic foil that the Germans usea as inner covers back on as they were taken off for the transport. I was very shocked to see what a mess was inside the hives! The last one was the worst - The frames are in the wrong direction and spacing was a mess! The bees have bridged gaps with comb and glued everything else together!


I got a lot of work ahead of me next spring to clean this mess up!!

[Kathyp]

that doesn't look like a mess, but i can only see those two pics.  looks pretty normal, but that comb between the frames is your fault.  why did you space the frames like that?

[BeeMaster2]

Spear,
Didn't you just get these 12 hives from a the widow of a beek that passed away.
I agree it doesn't look too bad.
Jim

[Kathyp]

Didn't you just get these 12 hives from a the widow of a beek that passed away.

ok, then it's not your fault.   :-D

still doesn't look bad.  more pics?

[Spear]

 I got 10 hives from the widow. The other 2 I got from a beek in the bee club. The pics don't really show the mes to clearly, will try get better pics next time I open the hives.
Here is a few pics of the hives. As you might notice they are mixed sizes stacked together.

[Michael Bush]

It looks beautiful to me... where is the mess?  Bees always glue everything together.  That's their job.