The Russians have swarmed three times. We failed to capture them, but each time they have come back to the hive. Time to split them.
Smoking the bees to calm them down before we take off the top of the hive.
That bee is poking his backside out! So cute!
This comb has some larva or baby bees. This hive is doing well.
We moved half of the full frames from the brown hive on the left to the white hive on the right. Then filled both hives with empty frames. I failed to get a final picture of the completed hives.
From left to right, we have Russians, Carniolans, Carniolans, and then Russians.
Miniature horses in the pasture today.
We did take a full frame of honey from from the Russians. 🙂
Removing the wax from the capped honey to expose the fresh honey.
This is a treat. Paul won’t let me take honey from the hives very often!