Summer Notes – 2010
-->July 11th 2010
After a long cold spring the bees are finally beginning to store large amounts of honey. One hive is building beautifully symmetrical honeycomb and the other hive keeps building brace and burr comb. Both hives are thriving with lots of new bees though.
July 18th 2010
I am still feeding so the top super is the empty one where the gallon of syrup is kept. The super below that does not have drawn comb in it. They will need to be drawn out. The supers below that all have frames with drawn comb.
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This is also the first year that I have seen the bees collecting nectar from the lavender. In past years the lavander is teaming with thousands of bumble bees. It has only been very late in the season after the bumble bees have gone away that I have seen a few honey bees on it. So this is exciting. It makes me wonder why there are no bumble bees around. I really don’t see any which is sort of odd.
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The color of this lavender in this video is not this blue. Youtube tweaked it a bit when rendering it I guess. The color in the photos is accurate.
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