Bee Happy!
It's a good week here in the Wings of Liquid Gold apiary. As I mentioned in my last post, I had moved my first hive and because of the tropical storm hadn't had a chance to get an inspection done. When I got in the hive a week ago Friday, the bees had handled it beautifully. When I got in the queen was producing brood and there were loads of bees in the hive. None of the bees are returning to the old location, so all in all "Great Success!". That same day I inspected the long hive and things were not so good. The queen was still laying, but there wasn't as much brood as I would have liked. Also, there were lots of Small Hive Beetles that can destroy a colony quickly if you don't get on top of it. I put in some beetle traps as well as some unscented swiffer sheets on top of the frames. The bees chase them in to the sheets and it turns out the little spines on their legs get caught up in them and they can't get out. I was thinking that...
