Monday, July 8, 2013

Hive


Checked my hives today.  Yesterday my mom found a picture of a bee that had k-wing and it looked a lot like my queen's wings, which is normally signs of either Nosema or tracheal mites, but my hives didn't show any other signs.   So we went to Harvard's and asked him what his opinion was.  He said if the queen is doing fine and she was laying to just leave her alone, because if we treat the hive we'd probably do more harm than good.  So we did exactly that.  My queens are doing fine.  I found a lot of eggs, but I only found one queen.  I wasn't particularly worried though because I found a lot of eggs and larvae.  We transferred the bees in my nuke to my orange hive.  We also gave my orange hive a gallon of sugar syrup.  After I finished with my hive, I helped my little brother with his hive.  We didn't find his queen,but we found a lot of eggs, so we weren't really worried, well I wasn't,but Matthew was.





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