Here’s a video of Jenny and me inspecting Hive #1 two days ago, scraping some honey off the frames and adding a second brood chamber.
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The editing isn’t the greatest because I asked our friend, Vanessa, who was shooting the video, to take some photos during the video as well. I read in the manual that my camera can integrate photos while still rolling on video. But it didn’t work like I thought it would, so I had to cut out most of the integrated photos. It’s a choppy edit. Details on expanding the hive were posted yesterday in the Adding a Second Brood Chamber post.
Related posts: Dead Baby Bees and Foundationless Frames.
I got my first taste of honey from one of our hives this morning (5 minutes ago), and there is no doubt about it: It’s the best honey I’ve tasted in my life.
This is what it looks like at the bottom of a Mason jar, a mouthful chunk of comb with honey in it.
I decided to inspect the hives this morning because it’s going to rain for the next few days and I knew I’d be too busy with my silly job next week to poke around with the bees.
I wanted to look down at the frames to see how much comb has been drawn out, but I didn’t want to pull out the frames and disturb the bees too much.
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My head hurts from all the online reading I’ve done on honeybees in the past few weeks. Every couple days I discover a new website and explore every corner of it. I’ll provide links to the more informative websites once I’ve committed to starting my own colony.
These Backwards Beekeepers videos are what go me interested in the first place, especially this video about harvesting the honey (I posted it before, but I’m throwing in a few more to go with it):
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