Monday, May 21, 2012

5-20-2012 Adding boxes

It wasn't a great day for beekeeping in Mathews... Overcast and somewhat windy, but the nucleus hive (hive C) was busting at the seams in their single deep hive body.  Also, I was able to clean up hive B a bit.  It seems like my fix is starting to take hold and although there are a couple frames that are still pretty messy, the bees are starting to fill out the other frames the way I was hoping they would.  The biggest hive (hive A) is still taking their time moving into the honey super.  I read on the internet about an Imrie shim.  I added this shim just above the queen excluder in hopes of encouraging the bees into the honey super.  Hopefully that will work! 

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