Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Honey Money

So far, Casey and I have harvested a little under fifty bottles of honey from two supers. We have sold between 25 and 30 jars for a net of $156.00. There is one super full of honey still on the hive that has not been capped yet. We will check on Thursday to monitor it's progress.

Still concerned about the other two hives. The packaged bees seem to be producing new brood but the activity in and out of the hive is very slow/weak. The split hive appears to have no new brood except for drone cells. At last check, last week, no Queen sighted but saw one Queen cell that had the side opened and the queen larvae exposed and probably dead. This is a sign of a new Queen that emerged and killed this develping Queen larvae.

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