Sounds in the Hive!

A few days ago Michael Griffeth and I went in for another look. We were looking for queen cells and adding sugar water to the feeder.

I recorded the hive after we smoked them. This is what is sounds like.

Turn up the volume.

Mill Springs Bees

Queen Hunter

Earlier in the week we got an email from Mr. Durocher. He let us know that we needed to check for queen cells.

The hive already has a queen. Apparently, all of the bees in the hive are loyal to the already established queen. If a new queen is born, the hive will swarm and find a new place to live.



We looked at each frame for queen cells which look like a drooping peanut.



We weren't totally sure about a few of the cells, so we removed what we thought might be queen cells. Kind of a gooey white liquid is what we removed. Royal jelly?




More Pictures below.

Mill Springs Bees