Karl fixed a leak in the hive from when he worked on the hive last weekend. Bees were getting out somehow and were flying around the porch so Karl had to fix that. Also, last weekend he put a "bee door" under the top super. The top super is full of capped honey ready to be harvested, but it's covered with bees. One way of moving all the bees on these frames is to install a bee door which is a one way exit-only contraption. The bees go down through this door, but can't get back into the top super. Supposedly, this happens pretty quickly and you should have empty frames in a couple of days. Unfortunately, after 5 or 6 days, we still had a mess of bees up in the top super. We learned later that these bee doors only work when it's cold. Who knew. So Karl fixed that yesterday.
And little Aksel got his first bee sting, but he survived with no allergic reaction. No picture of his fat lip, but it wasn't pretty. The funny thing was even though we live with tens of thousands of honeybees, he was stung by a wasp or a yellow jacket while we were on a picnic miles from our house. He had been drinking orange juice and the juice on his lip attracted an aggressive insect that got him. Our honeybee girls would never do that.
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