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Offline Spear

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What a mess!
« on: August 22, 2013, 05:01:14 pm »
I opened up my hives today for the 1st time so I could put the plastic foil that the Germans usea as inner covers back on as they were taken off for the transport. I was very shocked to see what a mess was inside the hives! The last one was the worst - The frames are in the wrong direction and spacing was a mess! The bees have bridged gaps with comb and glued everything else together!


I got a lot of work ahead of me next spring to clean this mess up!!
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Re: What a mess!
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2013, 05:20:47 pm »
that doesn't look like a mess, but i can only see those two pics.  looks pretty normal, but that comb between the frames is your fault.  why did you space the frames like that?

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Re: What a mess!
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2013, 12:05:31 am »
Spear,
Didn't you just get these 12 hives from a the widow of a beek that passed away.
I agree it doesn't look too bad.
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Re: What a mess!
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2013, 12:48:14 am »
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Didn't you just get these 12 hives from a the widow of a beek that passed away.

ok, then it's not your fault.   :-D

still doesn't look bad.  more pics?
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Offline Spear

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Re: What a mess!
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2013, 01:11:25 am »
 I got 10 hives from the widow. The other 2 I got from a beek in the bee club. The pics don't really show the mes to clearly, will try get better pics next time I open the hives.
Here is a few pics of the hives. As you might notice they are mixed sizes stacked together.


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Re: What a mess!
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2013, 10:00:21 am »
It looks beautiful to me... where is the mess?  Bees always glue everything together.  That's their job.
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