My mentor had put aside a half bucket of honey from cleaning out the cappings tank. It had not run through a double filter so it had more debris than the rest of the honey. I had thought to keep it for feeding back to the bees, but I had realized that after some barters for maple syrup and yarn and brisk sales at work I might run out of honey sooner than I had thought. So I decided to bottle up this honey.
It had been stored in the freezer so it had a toffee like consistency before I warmed it up. I tried to pour some out onto a filter I had set up, but the whole bucket’s worth decided to come out along with a big lump of cold toffee like honey. Oops.
I added removed some undrawn frames from the double nucs and added drawn comb with honey from the top box of blue to them The rest of the frames from the top box of blue filled in the empty space in Red. You can also see that the Green Nuc was bringing in a lot of pollen which suggests that they were still raising brood.
I then added anti-mite treatment to Blue and Green which were the hives that were the oldest and most likely to have a mite problem, I have seen mites in Blue more often that I would had liked. I then stopped up the top entrance in blue to keep in the fumes.
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