I am having a great nectar flow in my beeyard at my house. I checked my eight hives here today. Six of the eight needed supers. I have all the supers I own on the hives right now. I wanted to put two more supers on all the hives that needed them, but I need to get some more supers from Nature's Nectar LLC. The hives will get more supers later in the week.
The hot weather will get the nectar flowing all this week. Keep ahead of the bees. It is still June, if the weather gives us some more rain, this nectar flow may turn into something big.
I have stopped looking for swarm cells. When the supers start getting heavy, that is the limit. Usually the swarming behavior wanes during a good nectar flow. It never goes away, but neither does a sore back.
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| Good population of house bees storing nectar and making wax. New white comb is being built on all the frames. With the big population and warm weather, the bees are occupying all of the frames. Doing the business of bringing nectar from the field bees at the hive entrance. The house bees will bring the raw nectar and put it into the comb. The house bees will dehumidify the nectar ripening it into honey. Then cap the full cells of honey with beeswax. Quite a lot of work for bees that are 12 - 17 days old. |
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| When adding new frames and foundation, always put the new box closest to the brood boxes or on top of the queen excluder |
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| the new box of frames is on top of the queen excluder, the super which was quite heavy but not finished yet, goes on top. |
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| Another strategy: Put new undrawn frames in the center of a box with drawn frames |
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| Or, put one frame of drawn comb in the center of the new frames |
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| The beeyard is getting taller. I ran out of supers. The hives should all have one more super on top. |
