New Hive Inspection Week #17

This is week 17 inspection of a hive of honeybees that were installed on 4/30/21.

If you haven't seen the previous weeks, you can watch them here:

[dennisnieft]

Nikki great video as always.Up here in NE Wisconsin the yellow jackets were bad this year.What helped with me was I put an open feeder about 50yards away.That helped keeping them mostly away from the hives.This weekend we are starting to wrap the hives cause nights are getting down to freezing been feeding 2:1 for a month now.Thank you for your inspection tips they helped alot.

[angieziegler]

Thank you!! I checked my hive yesterday and they have tons of uncapped nectar and not much honey. I was worried but sounds like yours are still working on capping theirs too. I am in lower Michigan and last year they had full frames of honey at this time.

[walterwilliams]

Great thorough inspection again, thanks for sharing your bee 🐝 know how!

[johnl]

I found a yellow jacket nest with my bush hog this them boogers.

They look great still!

[johnhoffman]

Are you going to winter in 2 deeps? It seems to me that you dont have enough bees to support 2 deep boxes and your frames aren't heavy enough for feeding them to spring. I consolidated down to one deep box and it weighs ~95 lbs give or take a bee. I dont plan to feed them over winter. I hope you do a spring look see on how they did. Thx

[filipvernica]

Steeples important I use 1, 5 inch 18 gage, you?