Honey on the Counter

Karl removed a bunch of frames for spinning tomorrow and was able to check on the hive. The traps he put in last time have caught a bunch of small hive beetles. That's a good thing for sure, but kind of a bummer that there were so many beetles to trap in the first place. More good news: no sign of the dreaded wax moth. The only bad news is that there are signs that our bees are infected with the varroa mite which is causing a bunch of baby bees to be born deformed. After removing the frames of honey, Karl treated the hive with poison to get rid of them.

Here are the frames full of honey sitting on our counter waiting to spun. The one in front has comb all over it, but only has some honey in the center that is ready to go and capped. The frames behind it are the ones that are completely full and capped, but I didn't want to disturb them to take a picture.



There are lots of cells on the front frame that have some honey in them, but the bees haven't capped them because the honey isn't quite ready. We won't spin that side of the frame. I think it's cool that the bees have built the comb on a slight angle so the honey can just sit there and not drip out.



Tomorrow's the big day for honey harvesting!