Monday, May 16, 2011

Fallen comb

We waited 3 days and then slid the top bars apart to pull out the queen cage and see if she had been released yet. I slowly slid the top bars apart and then heard a "Thud". I couldnt see what it was because of all the bees in the way. I opened the window up and saw two decent size combs laying on the bottom of the hive. After thinking about what to do I reached in and grabbed one that I could get a hold of, but it was so soft that I almost couldnt even drag it over. There was no way to get the second one so my wife ran into the house and came back with a spatula. I was able to carefully slide it under the comb and get it out of there. I had read somewhere on the internet that if you had comb that dropped and you couldnt get it back on the top bar (there was no way with these combs because they were so new and soft yet) that you should just move them to the back of the hive and let the bees empty them, so thats what I did. The video cuts off when Katie had to start helping me get the comb out of the one end.






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