BeeBeeKa
House Bee
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2014
- Messages
- 282
- Reaction score
- 2
- Location
- Co. Sligo, Ireland
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
- Number of Hives
- 8 poly hives
…Quinn cell been found today during inspection of 3-BB langstroth hive. Found by an accident, I have to say, as I did not intend to check the very top honey super initially. It was on the 7th frame of pure and non-cupped honey comb , almost in the center of it. (Please choose " В полный размер " option under the click-appearing picture if you want to see more details)
On the following picture you can see a few other frames from the same box,- the frame with foundation on the right, and the frame with partially drown comb on the left off the Qc frame. It`s just to show that there was still plenty of space in the box.
The box underneath that top one is really very congested with honey/syrup combs (no brood though), cupped for about 80%.
But the next picture gives you an idea that the brood box itself at the very bottom ( with 6 frames of brood) has plenty of empty comb cells/space also.
Quinn is good, proactive, laying a decent amount of eggs( sorry for the bad quality picture)
It`s the second most prolific colony in my apiary, still harvesting some honey for me into that top box where the Qc found. There were no more Qc`s or cups in the entire hive.
And then was hail. Sudden and stunning… Just like that Qc in BB almost in the middle of October
…
Hail goes to hell. But what could make my bees to do that very odd trick?
So now your guesses please
On the following picture you can see a few other frames from the same box,- the frame with foundation on the right, and the frame with partially drown comb on the left off the Qc frame. It`s just to show that there was still plenty of space in the box.
The box underneath that top one is really very congested with honey/syrup combs (no brood though), cupped for about 80%.
But the next picture gives you an idea that the brood box itself at the very bottom ( with 6 frames of brood) has plenty of empty comb cells/space also.
Quinn is good, proactive, laying a decent amount of eggs( sorry for the bad quality picture)
It`s the second most prolific colony in my apiary, still harvesting some honey for me into that top box where the Qc found. There were no more Qc`s or cups in the entire hive.
And then was hail. Sudden and stunning… Just like that Qc in BB almost in the middle of October
…
Hail goes to hell. But what could make my bees to do that very odd trick?
So now your guesses please
