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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: iowabow on July 20, 2013, 02:57:33 pm

Title: Bee bench
Post by: iowabow on July 20, 2013, 02:57:33 pm

Annette's bee bench

Title: Re: Bee bench
Post by: JW_Halverson on July 20, 2013, 10:24:50 pm

 Wow, you are creating quite a buzz about beekeeping.

I bet your honey likes the bench.

Didja wax it?

Title: Re: Bee bench
Post by: iowabow on July 21, 2013, 12:21:30 am

No we don't have wax yet.
Did you like the picture? I though I "framed" it well. ;D

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Post by: criveraville on July 21, 2013, 12:35:45 am

That's cool. Nice bench.

Cipriano

Title: Re: Bee bench
Post by: JW_Halverson on July 21, 2013, 12:40:14 am

Gonna have to comb my memory for another bee based pun...

Title: Re: Bee bench
Post by: iowabow on July 21, 2013, 12:51:41 am

Don't brood about...it mite comb to you.

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Post by: hedgeapple on July 21, 2013, 02:16:20 am

I can't bear al these stinging puns.  :D

Nice bench.

Title: Re: Bee bench
Post by: JW_Halverson on July 21, 2013, 02:53:12 pm

I will readily admit some have been sting-kers.

Title: Re: Bee bench
Post by: JW_Halverson on July 21, 2013, 02:56:44 pm

Oh hey, Iowabow!  I went and worked my hives this morning.  Numbers 3 and 4 have finally 70+% fill in the upper hive bodies, so we added queen excluders and honey supers to them.  The #1 and #2 hives were the ones that were failing and both lost queens.  They have been combined and a new queen introduced.  We added a frame of capped brood from another healthy hive to help them along, too.  Doesn't look like much for new brood in the hive, but it has only been about 10 days, too.  We have a fantastic bloom of alfalfa in the field next to the hives and the guy isn't able to get back to town to cut it for another 10 days so we should be experiencing a nice honey flow!!!

For those of you not interested in bees, I apologize for waxing eloquent about them.