June 20 2018

Went in quickly to add a honey super to the Southside high that was the Nook. It's built out nicely. There's a photograph that shows three different super frames all have been rubbed down with five Strokes on each side of a beeswax Patty to see if that encourages the bees to move upstairs. The older Southside high that was Tracy's is putting up just a little bit of Honey hardly anything at all. The might seem to be under control when I went to the north side of things I decided to move the baby nuk to the newsstand location and so to make sure it was able to find its place I put a branch in front of it. There's a photograph to tonight we will move both of the other hives. Neither one of them are really putting any honey up in the Super's yet. The Westside North Hive looks good so I took a frame of mixed brewed eggs and food and put it in the small nuk that seems to be suffering. The blue Hive on the northeast side has good population but again no one's putting up and eat nectar to speak of just supplies they need. Again mites look under control so I think I'm going to wait until we return from New York to do my summer treatment, just in case they decide to put up something while we're away. There is some white wax that's been built on the strongest Northwest Hive but other than that nothing really is happening. I'm hoping that by rubbing the beeswax on some of these super frames it will encourage the bees to move up into the Super's. We'll see. I've also planned to do a Mite count on Thursday morning if I can get a new beekeeper out here to work it with me we'll see.