Moving Day For Bees

After shooting this pic, I lifted the lid and slid it forward a bit to allow the bees in on top of the liner. They all found their way to the queen. Today the 12Th, I added a super in between rain showers to give them more room. The amount of bees here was like two 3 lb boxes. I will get an update photo when the weather clears. The big maple log is next.

This log was not a section of a tree trunk, but a limb that was 20 feet up. The comb was attached along the under side in the section on the ground. That is where we found the queen walking. I allowed her to walk onto my gloved hand, and I put her in the brood box over the sections of comb where her spring work had begun. There was still a good amount of capped honey that was harvested after placing 6 frames of comb in the brood box. 2 frames of foundation was put in on each side.

Carefully we split a little, then cut a little, then split a little more until we could open the log with our on force which gave us control of the piece going down to the ground.

This log was brought to the yard on July 17, 2009. The bees were allowed to inter only through the brood box that was on the top. March 11, 2010 was moving day. After removing the brood box, we used a small power saw to cut a grove where the grain suited better for splitting.