Today I did a few things:
- Added mouse guard
- Added feeder to the top
- Repositioned this tall hive since it was leaning forward and as soon as I touched the first box, I stopped it from tipping over! Oh boy, what a disaster that would have been.
- Upset my bees and got a few stings today
- Added Apivar strips to the two top deeps. The bottom deep still has the Oxilic acid paper towels there so I thought I may need extra help with the varroa since my bottom board didn't have many mites on it.
- I added a new sticky board to see if I see more mites than I have been seeing
There still appears to be a queen since I saw brood in the middle deep and upper deep. I didn't disturb the lower deep since I would have torn the oxilic paper.
Lots of honey, capped and ready to eat when needed. I'm not taking any for myself this fall. I added the feeder so I will begin adding sugar syrup very soon but don't think they need it yet.
I'm worried about the height of my hive. I fear something bumped into it which is what made it tippy. But it's too late, I think, to create a Nuc and have it winter over. I may get a few more cement blocks to add under the front so that it can't tip off.
