Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Removing the fallen comb

So what I had read about moving fallen comb to the back end of the hive turned out not to work in my case. Apparently everything you read on the internet isn't true.I watched for a couple of days but my bees just attached the fallen comb to the bottom of the hive and then started to fill the comb with pollen. Also, the queen seemed to be spending all of her time on this fallen comb. We decided we had to remove it so that the bees returned to building comb from the top bars. I opened the hive up and used the spatula again to carefully scrape the comb from the bottom of the hive and remove it. I am worried that there is still a bunch of bees hanging on the back wall of the hive instead of being with the rest of the bees near the hive entrance. We did not see the queen after removing the comb, but I am hoping that she moved over to the main bunch of bees and is in there somewhere.


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