PART 2 treating wood Beehive boxes to prevent rot,decay. Bee hive wood pine boxes dipped in copper and beeswax coated for longer life.Help stop wood rot from water and weather or beekeeping pests like ants,wax moths and termites. Beekeepers Beekeeping equipment improvement, treatment of bee hive supplies. John Pluta, Milledgeville Georgia georgiabees.blogspot.com
A new Virgin Queen Bee running on honey comb.Georgia Beekeeper John Pluta with beehive frame & virgin Carniolan Queen bee piping to other worker bees. Queen cells just hatched out of cell building hive.Beekeeping seldom seen. Queen will go on mating flight seeking drones,return to lay eggs,which hatch into larva,then pupae. Nuc boxes with 5 frames of comb are used to raise and mate Queens here in Milledgeville
Beekeeping, Beekeepers closeup of entrance fanning by honey bees. WATCH the upside down bees, I’d never noticed that before. This is September so the orange goldenrod pollen is flowing in,very humid because of rains so the extra entrance fanning for nectar evaporation.The Bee pollen coming in on the honeybees legs is high in protein and will be fed to baby bees or mixed with honey to make royal jelly to raise a queen. I use Bee pollen traps on my beehives to trap the pollen for sales or to …