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Over at dad's just after new year, it had been stinking hot, time to see what's going on in Baghdad.
Last harvest was on the 11th November...
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Front door looking pretty. Girls lookin' busy.
Lift the lid...
Some frames filling up with nectar...
Some getting capped off...
Some had been sitting crooked, they had filled in the gaps....
I carved these burrs off and tried to re-align them as much as possible.
Some just had big gaps for no apparent reason.
The gaps were symmetrical on both inside sides of adjacent combs, if you get my drift...
Overall almost a few barely harvestable frames,
but it takes a bit more than this to get me to fire up the spinner these days
Plenty of brood down below
Eggs...
I notice that the grubs end up "right side up" in the frames, before they are capped off.
Lots of bees...
And an audience.
Next time, I predict lots of honey.
This hive has really taken off since the "Welcome to Baghdad",
... just over a year ago now, and one big harvest since then....
Awesome.
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