2011-06-24 Some Cleanup
Cleanup time! I took out some wonky comb. The bees are building across top bars. Comb with brood I put in to the back of the hive. We didn’t need the honey so I set it on a plate and put a Langstroth super up on the front end of the hive. Here’s the plate with the comb on it:
Here’s the super from the outside:
Note that the super hangs off the sides of the top bars. The next bars that I cut will be an inch longer so that standard Langstroth equipment will work with it. I’m not sure the details, but it would be useful if I could both rest equipment on the top bar as in this picture and hang the top bar in place of a frame. I think an adapter is in order.
The brood comb I set in the back of the hive followed by a view of the inside of the hive:
This technique seems to be pretty successful in that the bees will clean up the comb and I don’t find new brood back there. They do put in some nectar and fix the comb to the box. They also built some new comb nearby on a top bar and there, I found some SHB back there:
They don’t appear to be strong throughout the hive which is good, after last year, I’m still nervous…