Sunday, 24 July 2011

Honey and pollen


I was hoping that this mornings inspection would show me honey ready for harvesting, but not quite ready yet the stored honey needs to be capped off with wax, if not then it will be too watery and no good. This photo shows some cells capped but most almost full and waiting to be capped.

The next photo shows pollen being stored ready for feeding the young larvae, it is all sorts of colours, the bees seem to store pollen from different plants in different cells!

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