Added a Super

Since the hive has taken off so early this year I have added a super. This will expand the hive and provide a place for the bees to add honey for me to harvest. This year I am only putting 9 frames into the box. This will allow for the bees to draw the comb out farther and place more honey in each cell. This actually result in greater honey production... so they say. I have a bar that spaces each frame an equal distance apart.

New bee suites

Aleena and I got new bee suites. There is no way for the bees to get into sting us. I guess we have a bit more confidence with them on. The real test will be mid summer when the hive is full with 50,000 bees and the get agitated.

Start of Year 2

It is the middle of April and Aleena and I went in to the hive for the first time this year. The bees have been active for a good month now and we expected a population explosion. We were right there was a lot of bees and the next batch will hatch in a week or so. As you can see in the photo there is honey in the hive, so they have food. There is not a lot of pollen, so I will need to get them a supplement for that.