Which means they can both come and help with Bees
My 6year old - Katie was very pleased with her look! and quite excited!
then put on the head veils, tape wrists
So to the inspection details......
Number 1 hive
Finally found the queen - Thanks to Amy's good spotting (8 minutes into the video below)
We found drone and worker cells and identified the difference
We found honey stores - uncapped but plenty of it
This means they have finally found some flowering trees - Melaleuca, I think starting to flower now the wet season has tapered off
The girls learnt lots, asked heaps of questions - had trouble with the dried horse poop i use for smoker fuel! likes it better when I topped up smoker with eucalyptus leaves
Number 2 hive
Doing much better, even has a little beard in the evening of bees hanging out the front of the hive
plenty of brood, plenty of honey - some even capped
starting to really fill out available space with comb
Even cut a small bit of honey comb out of one drawn comb for the wife, who loves honey in the comb (girls liked it too - it was a very light colour with no real significant taste or aromas)
The honey currently being stocked up is much darker
walking past the hives at night - the smell of rich honey is infectiously delicious!
Towards the end of the hive inspection Katie got stung through her gloves (she rubbed a bee off her hand and it retaliated) which shocked her a bit - but she handled it well and promised she would come and help next time despite the experience
So very happy with the progress of both hives - but want more!
Hive inspection Video below has the girls asking heaps of questions
- while I am a newbee too and still learning every day
- the answers to the girls questions might help some others, at the very least add some insight
Enjoy
