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[Lisak1]

haha! That's a great image... especially after you told us they were INSANE!

 

[Tula]

Mine arrived too

 

[addy1]

haha! That's a great image... especially after you told us they were INSANE!

They were insane until the end of June, early July then boom................calm. Every hive except one did a supercede, i.e. they decided the queen was getting weak and replaced her. A queen only has so many eggs and so much sperm, when they start falling behind in laying eggs the work bees of the hive make the decision to replace her. They make her lay a egg in a prepared queen cell, then feed that egg extra royal jelly, making a queen. That queen will kill the old queen when she emerges, if the old queen had not been killed by the workers.

Of the hives that re-queened, one of them was the mean nasty hive. The attacks have stopped. I was working right behind the hives in a t shirt and shorts, not one bee bothered me. I was ready to bail if they started guarding me again.

 

[addy1]

I had the bees doing the dishes. I emptied a lot of containers getting ready for the fair.
The Howard country fair is this weekend. We take a honey to the fair to sell, the club gets 10% of what we sell, which supports the club. They bring in good speakers.

 

[addy1]

I don't have a honey prep room, the living room and kitchen get a bit crowded with bottles jars, boxes. I bottled up over 200 lbs in the last few days.

The club asked me to bring more honey than I ever have, we harvested more honey then ever before, which helps . All club members can bring honey, then you need to work the bee booth. It seems there are fewer members bringing honey this year. This is just the chunk honey bottled up, i.e a piece a comb in a bottle of honey.

 

[j.w]

Wow that's a heap a honey there!

 

[MitchM]

Wow, that's a lot of work!
-so who's busier - you or the bees?

 

[addy1]

Wow, that's a lot of work!
-so who's busier - you or the bees?

Right now I think I am! but if you watch a hive, I have never seen such activity as you see with a bee hive, each one has their task , which they preform well, until they drop dead in about 6 weeks.

 

[addy1]

First place!

 

[j.w]

Great job and it looks so nice all packaged up!

 

[Tula]

Congratulations - your hard work paid off !!

I was with one of my sisters this past week and gave her both bottles of honey. She immediately chose the darker one for herself

 

[Lisak1]

EXCELLENT! I would have given you the blue ribbon, too!

 

[DutchMuch]

WOOHOO!!

 

[DutchMuch]

wax

Hey addy, If I have a lot of beeswax how do I render it down? whats the best option?

 

[addy1]

Thanks our bees did good!