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Comment by Rob Shepler on July 24, 2012 at 8:41am

That is about what Patricia has, starts on the 8th bar. Kind of neat to compare hives of the same age from different areas. I will be interested to hear how Diana's are doing when she gets a chance to peek. Interestingly, her BW is doing better than my BW's, skill I say.

Comment by Ralph Ketter on July 24, 2012 at 8:08am

I'm glad to hear Patricia’s bees are doing well.  Mine have made a total of about 4 full new combs plus they are using the old comb I gave them for a total of about 5.  This is roughly the same amount of comb I estimated they had made in 2 weeks so little if any new comb since June 22.  I marked each bar this morning as to what percentage of comb I felt was completed.  They have comb on 9 bars but two of them are only starts of 5 or 6 square inches each.  The fullest one I rated at 90%.  On Sunday I decided to feed them some syrup so if they are inspired to build more comb at least I know they have some additional resource to do it.  We had over an inch of rain in La Luz last Wednesday but only a few sprinkles since then.  Hopefully the rains will translate into some blooms soon.

Comment by Diana Calkins on July 23, 2012 at 8:51pm

Yes, rain!  Today we got 3/10th of the wet stuff; less than a tenth yesterday. 

Comment by Rob Shepler on July 23, 2012 at 8:33pm

Rain? If you have some extra, please send it over the hill. My girls thank you kindly!

Comment by Paul McCarty on July 23, 2012 at 8:27pm

By the way, since the rains have started, I have noticed my hives drawing comb again. I haven't been feeding the majority of them either, though I do have candy in some of my bigger hives with huge populations.

Comment by Paul McCarty on July 23, 2012 at 8:24pm

Yep, the common wisdom is to not mess with them when they are hiding in their hive or irritated due to weather - though I have done it before with few ill effects as long as I was extremely careful and I absolutely had to go in. Definitely NOT for the faint of heart with a full three box lang of bees.

Comment by Diana Calkins on July 23, 2012 at 8:17pm

We planned to check this past weekend but never got to it.  Robert recalled that Les said not to mess with the hives when it is stormy, so hopefully this weekend the weather will allow it.  Hopefully our car hunt will allow it, too.  My car laid down on us, so we've been spending more time than preferred at car dealerships.

Comment by Rob Shepler on July 23, 2012 at 7:40pm

Patricia's hive has 8 bars of comb. How are yours doing Ralph and Lady Di?

Comment by Kevin Schwebel on July 19, 2012 at 1:14pm

Quite so...

Comment by Paul McCarty on July 19, 2012 at 12:39pm

All bees can be mean.

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