Routine Check

Casey and I harvested 30 more jars of honey two days ago. Today, I did an inspection of the other two hives. I pulled the super off of the middle hive because they were not building comb on any of the starter strips. I pulled and inspected all frames on the top brood box and things look really good. Lots of brood, capped and uncapped, lots of polen and honey as well.

The third hive looks exactly the same. I see lots of drone cells, uncapped larvae, and no Queen cells. I pulled off the top brood box because things were not happening in it. I took frames that had lots of drawn comb and put them into the lower brood box.

More Honey

Casey and I harvested three more frames of honey on Wednesday. The honey was really dark. We also took two frames of brood and honey from the first hive, shook off the bees, and placed them into the third hive, which we think has been Queenless for a few weeks. Tomorrow, Sunday, we will take a peek inside to see if there are any Queen cells forming. If not, then we'll order a Queen...if we can find a place that's still selling them.

So far, we've earned $250.00 in honey sales! If things go as expected, we should harvest another 25 to 40 jars of honey. If we can sell all of it, that should bring in another $125.00 to $200.00.