Today, I wanted to add the Triangle Board to Hive #1 because I want to extract one super this weekend. I think that is all the honey I will get this year. I had hoped that the second super would be filling up but it is not. In fact, Hive #1 doesn't seem to have that many bees in there....so I'm anxious to get the honey out while it's still there!
The Triangle Board is a board that you put in under the super that is filled with honey. Bees will go down into the deep hive at the endof the day, but they won't be able to figure out how to get back up into the super...so that makes it easy for us beekeepers to get the super off the next day without bees in that box.
While I was there, I looked in on Hive #2. I was very pleased to see signs of a queen and some brood in the lower deep. I've noticed more bees in that hive while watching them in the evening so was glad to see firsthand that they are doing ok.
We'll see what the next few months bring. Right now, I am thinking I may need to combine the hives over the winter based on the population I see today. But we'll see what happens.
I think that after I extract the honey from Hive 1, I will put it back on that hive. The second super that's on there doesn't have comb so the bees first need to make comb before they can fill it...I can help them out by putting the super back on that has the comb on it.
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