End of Summer Beehive Inspection - Things look great!

As summer draws to a close, it's time to check our hives and see how things look. Is the new queen laying eggs yet? Do they have enough honey for the winter? Are they dealing with varroa mites, hive beetles? We thought we'd bring you along for the inspections. +AMDG

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[rdkitchengarden]

things are looking really good. Take care Jonathan

[bradgoliphant]

Oh, and is there is reason why all your frames have like rolling hills in them? Never seen that before.

[bradgoliphant]

Hey, I see you did not use a queen excluder. Any reason why? Do you find that queens won't cross cells filled with honey?

[hristov]

Hi, The queen do not like to lay eggs in new frames. You should put far away from the area where queen is working as new frames are brier for the queen to go on the next frame.
You should neither use very old dark frames, where the wholes are to tide and not proper for healthy new bees. the frame where queen lays eggs are going dark in 5-6 year. The frames that are used only for honey - they are white for 15-20 years. Keep this in mind.
I thing you should not put so much building frames at this time of the year. Spring and early summer is the proper time. Late August is the time to prepare the hive for wintering - to concentrate the food in the center where the bees are going to be during hibernation. if they need to go far for food you increase the risk for losing the hive, Each frame needs to have 1, 7-2 kg honey and the hive needs 15-30 kg in total..