Unfortunately, we lost one of the hives mid summer and have had 2 go queenless. One of the queenless hives we are trying to requeen by putting a frame of eggs from a healthly queen from another hive into the queenless hive. The bees in the queenless hive know they are queenless and will begin to prepare the open eggs and larva to become a queen by filling the open cells with royal jelly (hopefully). The other queenless hive we are combining with a weak hive that has a queen to try to make it stronger going into the winter.
We have pulled our honey for the year. We harvested about 4 gallons of honey, and bottles are for sale for $8.00. All of the honey money goes back into the bee program here at Mill Springs. If you would like a bottle please send me an email madams@millsprings.org.
The next few months we will be preparing the bees for winter. The Bee Stangs bee keeping club will also resume. Honey bees!
After we are done scraping the honey we put the residuals outside. It takes about an hour for the bee from the field to find the residuals and another hour to clean any honey left over.
More Pictures from the 2014 Honey Pull
More Pictures of the Mill Springs Bees
