Here you'll find all pics I take which don't go into the technically/logging category but might still bee interesting:

Wednesday, 18.07.18 - honey harvest and misc pics

The second and last harvest for this year. We extracted around 45Kg of very nice, kind of dark multi-flower honey. The NUC hive is doing fine as well:

Sunday, 03.06.18 - wasps, natures waste disposal...

Click for a video of how quickly a wasp cuts out the best part of the bee to feed their brood (most modern browsers should play it in a new tab, size 35MB):

Saturday, 02.06.18 - we don't like freely dangling sensor wires...

Tuesday, 29.05.18 - honey harvest!

Just two pictures which show an quite interesting technique. After taking the bees honey combs out and extracting the honey, my dad puts the empty and sometimes quite mangled combs in a box with an window. The worker bees then do two things. First, they lick out all the honey from the cells which wasn't extracted. After that they repair those warped cells! I find this quite fascinating.

Btw: honey harvest was 137Kg (around 300lb) from 5 vee colonies! Impressive...

Saturday, 26.05.18

Next tuesday is the time of the first honey harvest this year. For this reason we had to check every hive a few times over the last few days. The hives are all thriving. Ten thousands of bees per hive. Amazing:

Friday, 11.05.18

You see the empty holes? They use them for two things: 1) storing honey to feed the worker bees on that comb and 2) heater bees get down there and heat the surrounding cells/brood!