Sunday, September 21, 2008


Even though I don't have an extractor, I decided to harvest some of the honey in the full super. I scraped the comb into a 2 gallon pot and then through cheesecloth. The honey is dark and very sweet. It's mostly goldenrod with a bit of purple loosestrife thrown in for good measure. I'll be medicating and feeding with sugar water on my next trip out to the hive. By the way, when beekeepers are told to always use a smoker when working a hive they ain't kidding. I put a bee escape into the inner cover then put the super on top on Thursday. On Friday I pulled off the super without smoking the bees and was stung four times.

Monday, September 1, 2008

Super Check


I can't leave well enough alone so I peeked in to see how the bees were coming on filling the extra honey supers. The lower shallow super is now nearly full of capped honey, (7 of 10 frames) and the little darlings are drawing comb in the upper super. I can't wait to harvest the excess.