Time for the honey super

Last year I did not get any honey from my bees. That was a sad year. I was only able to get the two brood boxes on the hive. This year however, things are going much better. I am ready to add a third box called the honey super. basically anything that goes into the honey super is what I get to keep. Yummy!

When I arrived I noticed the difference between the two hives. The one on the left has a ton of bees on the front entrance, where as the one on the right just has a few. The left one is stronger and more crowded.

This is going to be really hard to see but if you zoom in to the center of the image really close you can see lots of cells that have uncapped larva at different stages. I think it looks cool.

This is interesting, the whole frame is capped brood except for the center. It looks like they are filling it with honey. what that tells me is that there is a big honey flow going on right now. When the bees hatched and cleaned out their cells the other bees needed some place to put there honey. Normally the brood fills most of the frame with the top few inches filled with honey.

This metal grate looking thing is a queen excluder. What it does is it allows the worker bees to travel to the honey super to deposit that liquid gold and it keeps the queen out of that box so she does not lay any eggs there.

Here are my hives now, the one on the left has the honey super and the queen excluder on it. the one on the right will be getting the same thing in a week or two.

The grass has grown so tall that it is hard to see my hives let alone get to them.

Here I am hiding in the grass. Can you find me?