Why are they building comb on the tops/ends of the frames?Everything went well. The girls were very calm in the first 3 hives. The swarm hive was a different story. They were a bit spicier and a few were buzzing my head. I'm so thankful for my veil, jacket, gloves & big boy pants (aka hubs jeans, they're thicker than mine).
We worked as quickly as we could, put everything back together and put on the 2:1 syrup.
We will be extracting 14 frames of buckwheat honey and 14 frames of late summer honey. That will have to wait until we're back home next weekend.
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Very thankful to have the 3rd freezer. We were going to sell it, before we got our bees. So glad we didn't.
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Next year we might remove most of the supers in the middle of the buckwheat flow. Leave any frames that are mostly filled, so the girls can cap them. That will hopefully make it easier for them to fill up the deeps in prep for winter.
We should be able to keep feeding syrup until the end of October. We'll see what our temps do.