Home Expansion

I know I did an inspection a week ago, but I don’t have one to share today. On Friday, June 11th, I decided that I needed to at least give Frigga another box to expand into. Once I took a look at Galadriel, I decided I might as well give both master, egg laying queens room to expand into.

I don’t have many pictures to share on this post. Galadriel is my spicy hive. Those girls have proven to me I need to do inspections while wearing gloves. They learned first hand this isn’t a good idea. I’m not very graceful with goatskin gloves covering my hands. I didn’t squish or injure a bunch of bees, but they got jostled pretty good. Once I got the second deep put on and closed up the hive, I hoped the girls would go back into the hive. Nope! Those girls were super angry with me. I had to get ten feet from the hive to get them to leave me alone.

The true downside of all of this, I couldn’t take my gloves off to do an inspection of the Frigga hive. So, instead of jostle my gentle girls, I picked up the frame that had the queen cups on it. It had everything, minus the queen, that I needed to see to do a true inspection of the hive. I get the one frame I removed back in the hive and put the second deep on for the girls.

I haven’t been to the bee yard to check on the girls since Friday when I put the second strap back on the Frigga hive. I had to hurry because the guard bees that were going to sting me come hell or high water started on their dive bombing as soon as I entered the clearing. I hadn’t put my beesuit back on because I wasn’t going to open either hive. I figured I’d be safe. Those adamant girls proved me oh so wrong. I moved fast and got it done. I guess I’ll wait and empty the trays under the hives sometime this week. Maybe then I’ll have some more interesting pics of the girls for you.

As always, any questions, just ask! If I can’t answer you, I can and will find someone who can!