May Bees

So I forgot to post about my bees last time I went out to check on them. Here are some pics.

Here Are my hives! The other people who have bees near mine were very nice and cut down the weeds in front of the entrances so the bees can get out easier.

Here is a look inside one hive with a few frames removed. The were building up a lot of burr comb between the boxes (kind of hard to see in the pic). I scraped it out and saved it in a container for later.

Here is some burr comb at the bottom of the frame, it looks cool but not that efficient for the bees.

Here is looking in the other hive, they don't have very much honey comb built up yet.




This was taken 2 weeks later
Here is a pic of one of the frames that has a lot of capped cells with brood in them. If you look close you can see open cells that have larva in them to the left of the capped cells (they will be capped very soon). Once the larva matures, bees will come out of the cells.



I think I will be able to put on my first honey super on one of the hives, it is doing really really well. the other one may be another week or so more.