Tuesday, July 10, 2012

High altitude bees



On July 4th we (my family and my dog and I) hiked to the top of Maple Mountain (Spanish Fork Peak). We saw bees at the very top on these purple cone like flowers. The elevation of the peak is 10,200 feet.

Queens?

I checked on the Patterson hive again today. It's been a couple of weeks. I cleaned up the collapsed combs from last time. The girls had moved the honey from them and then attached the combs to the side and bottom. Funky comb.
I pulled a couple more bars of honey. I removed some very crooked honey/pollen comb and put it in the end of the hive so they could clean it out.

I was going through the brood nest to see what happened with the many queen cells from last inspection. I saw two queens on the same comb and stopped at that point.

I did put a few empty bars between the existing combs on the north end.

I also used a push pin to re-attach the screened bottom that had come loose in one area.