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Beekeeping on the West End
As a follow-up to the Dang Bees thread...
I visited my apiary to check on the brood hives and took a couple pictures to share:
This one shows a few eggs (in the bottom of the cells, center-right) that the queen just recently laid. You can see the queen trying to run and hide on the lower right portion of the picture. She has the queen breeder's mark on her.
This one shows various stages of worker bee brood. The curled up white larvae (solid white cells) are older (maybe a week) and are about to be capped. You can also see the recently capped worker cells (the larvae will morph into worker bees inside the sealed cells, and eat their way out when ready).
Others cells have larvae in various stages of growth. The worker bees are feeding them with nectar almost constantly.
Away off to the right and at the edge of the frame are a couple orange cells, these are packets of pollen (protein) socked away for later consumption. There's no honey yet on these brood frames, that'll come in the summer and honey production should spill over to another hive box that I'll add, for the newborn worker bees to fill.
None of the girls (all workers are girls) got upset at me for taking pictures, so no stings this visit.
I visited my apiary to check on the brood hives and took a couple pictures to share:
This one shows a few eggs (in the bottom of the cells, center-right) that the queen just recently laid. You can see the queen trying to run and hide on the lower right portion of the picture. She has the queen breeder's mark on her.
This one shows various stages of worker bee brood. The curled up white larvae (solid white cells) are older (maybe a week) and are about to be capped. You can also see the recently capped worker cells (the larvae will morph into worker bees inside the sealed cells, and eat their way out when ready).
Others cells have larvae in various stages of growth. The worker bees are feeding them with nectar almost constantly.
Away off to the right and at the edge of the frame are a couple orange cells, these are packets of pollen (protein) socked away for later consumption. There's no honey yet on these brood frames, that'll come in the summer and honey production should spill over to another hive box that I'll add, for the newborn worker bees to fill.
None of the girls (all workers are girls) got upset at me for taking pictures, so no stings this visit.
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