Comments on: Brood http://doorgarden.com/06/honey-bee-brood Helping You Get the Most Out of Your Garden Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:13:21 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: David LaFerney http://doorgarden.com/06/honey-bee-brood#comment-6582 David LaFerney Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:35:53 +0000 http://doorgarden.com/?p=1096#comment-6582 If there was comb for her to lay in you probably have brood right now, but until your eyes learn what to look for it can be hard to see. Eggs can be very hard to see on new white comb - especially through a veil. The nurse bees will also try to cover the brood and sometimes the queen. In another week you should see plenty of capped brood - look on the very first comb that was built. Try to relax, everything is probably fine. Let me know what you find in a week. If there was comb for her to lay in you probably have brood right now, but until your eyes learn what to look for it can be hard to see. Eggs can be very hard to see on new white comb – especially through a veil. The nurse bees will also try to cover the brood and sometimes the queen. In another week you should see plenty of capped brood – look on the very first comb that was built. Try to relax, everything is probably fine. Let me know what you find in a week.

]]> By: K FULLER http://doorgarden.com/06/honey-bee-brood#comment-6581 K FULLER Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:21:03 +0000 http://doorgarden.com/?p=1096#comment-6581 Hi- I really appreciate your clear photos and info about the honey bee. I am a new beekeeper and just inspected my new hives to see if the queen was laying/accepted. She was let out of the box about 1 week ago, there are plenty of bees/comb/honey, but I didn't see any eggs or cappings. Just curious, how long did it take for you to see the cappings so you knew the queen was ok? thanks in advance and I hope the hives are prospering! Hi- I really appreciate your clear photos and info about the honey bee. I am a new beekeeper and just inspected my new hives to see if the queen was laying/accepted. She was let out of the box about 1 week ago, there are plenty of bees/comb/honey, but I didn’t see any eggs or cappings. Just curious, how long did it take for you to see the cappings so you knew the queen was ok? thanks in advance and I hope the hives are prospering!

]]> By: David LaFerney http://doorgarden.com/06/honey-bee-brood#comment-3321 David LaFerney Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:37:42 +0000 http://doorgarden.com/?p=1096#comment-3321 Well, I got another hive by doing a trap out extraction of a colony that was inside of a concrete block wall. So I'm going into the winter with two hives. One of them is a bit on the small side, but the young queen was laying like mad in September so it has a lot of young bees, and I have high hopes that both colonies will make it through the winter - fingers crossed. I've really enjoyed my bees, and I feel like I've learned a lot in my first season. I hope to rear some queens and increase my apiary next year. Well, I got another hive by doing a trap out extraction of a colony that was inside of a concrete block wall. So I’m going into the winter with two hives. One of them is a bit on the small side, but the young queen was laying like mad in September so it has a lot of young bees, and I have high hopes that both colonies will make it through the winter – fingers crossed. I’ve really enjoyed my bees, and I feel like I’ve learned a lot in my first season. I hope to rear some queens and increase my apiary next year.

]]> By: BestBeekeeping http://doorgarden.com/06/honey-bee-brood#comment-3320 BestBeekeeping Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:37:56 +0000 http://doorgarden.com/?p=1096#comment-3320 I just discovered your entries about bees. I don't think posts about bees are at all out of place on a gardening blog - pollination is obviously an essential part of gardening, and bees are the number one pollinators. Really great photos. How the rest of the beekeeping season go? I just discovered your entries about bees. I don’t think posts about bees are at all out of place on a gardening blog – pollination is obviously an essential part of gardening, and bees are the number one pollinators.

Really great photos. How the rest of the beekeeping season go?

]]> By: MikeBiggs http://doorgarden.com/06/honey-bee-brood#comment-1201 MikeBiggs Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:31:28 +0000 http://doorgarden.com/?p=1096#comment-1201 I'm totally loving reading about your honey bee escapades! Keep it up :D I’m totally loving reading about your honey bee escapades! Keep it up :D

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