Bee Vlog #112 - July 13, 2013 - Quick checkup, one weak hive

I'm bringing back the hive scale for some baseline measurements. I hear that the main nectar flow is over for my area so I'm taking weights to see how well all the hives did this year. This will also help me to track if another nectar flow starts up or if everything is done for the year. The weights and a chart are available at my apiary page:
http://thebeevlog.blogspot.com/p/apiary.html

It's also been 2 weeks since installing the quilt boxes on 2 of the hives and I wanted to see if they've started chewing through the canvas bottom. I'd like to put quilt boxes on all the hives this winter, but need to first test things out with this design.

All the hives but one seem to be doing just fine. The one hive, Queen Isabella (a cutout from June 1, rescued from a townhouse attic), just isn't growing as I would expect. The population seems to be dwindling. There's good looking brood, plenty of pollen, but very little honey. I'll check on them again in 2-3 weeks and see if things have improved. If they still look weak then I'll give them a boost from a frame of brood and a frame of honey from a strong hive and reduce their space to one box.

To keep up with my apiary and track the hives, visit My Apiary page at:
http://thebeevlog.blogspot.com/p/apiary.html

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I'm bill
this inspectors are gonna be pretty
minimal actually just gonna be taking
some weights you see my I've scale have
been used at all this season yet
I've heard that the nectar flow is
pretty much over in our area
I'm still learning more about the Neckar
clothes and getting
being acquainted with how how much
nectar to expect
in this area during the year Simon be
taking up a sign reading on the weeks
today
I'm normally I use the scale I have to
have access to the backside hi
the suspense is only a couple feet away
from the hype and i cant that the scale
there so I'm really trying it
from site approach today
see how well that works also on these
two hives
I A was check on the quilt blocks and
see if the peace have been chewing
through the campus bottoms I
releasing any and pine shavings down
under I'm
so it's been two weeks since the book
boxes have been on here
be seen fine seem to be doing alright
with them
temperatures today are actually very
nice is only about 72 degrees outside
even as the middle of july
that's one of the things I love about
the weather here and they'll just be
taking a look to see if they need any
room I'm not can be going through all
the frames and was gonna be basically
seeing at the top frames how much relief
build-down CL crowded they might be in
if they needed me
additional space and that's it I'm just
doing that much on
on all the hives let's take a look at
this book boxes first
here the pine shavings
feel a little bit
cool %uh they don't really feel damp was
cool to the touch
still dry don't expect a lot of moisture
this time here but these hives
previously in the spring
have been showing a lot of moisture
that's why I wanna try on these two hoes
first was open up the Kobach's lookup
money
problems with the pine shavings is you
can't really turned upside down look
how to
they've been calling it with propolis
I'll see any
that's being chewed out no all the right
in the middle there
possibly
role has been started calls for work
here
move sorry yes it
don't mind she thinks the this
into the books and
still have plenty of room here using
about
60 the frames apart %uh the mess I made
um seem to be doing okay with the quote
box:
gonna try to get away from here from the
side
early I do this from the back where I
have a gap
built-in underneath a hive stand but I
can't get to the back
so instead I'm gonna try to get to it
from the side here
the see if I can pop it up here
Spielmann
your fat
0 out
this is weighing thirty seven and a half
pounds
sonya double that make
75 house
now it's time to check on Queen
catherine's box
same thing here the find savings to
still cool to the touch I really wet
take a peek underneath them see if they
fit shoot through it all
sounds good
so OC two holes with they've been
properly sing it nicely
and their final space know what program
flows takeaway here and Cove Islam
another hires
cake weights and take a peek under the
hood to see if they're
ringer spacer for good that's all there
is to do those inspections
I'm out at another one of my yards now
and I was doing just a quick quick
peaks and to see how the fees are due in
this one does seem a little off this is
the
the hive that I got from the town home
cut-out up in the attic three weeks ago
when I was doing inspection
checking up on them found waxman of on
the
home that was older and not being occupy
it
not seeing the kind of growth I love
this five that I would expect
so I'm getting the of
by from them population just
isn't growing
and things are not looking normal I'm
gonna go through and
do a thorough inspection on them take a
look at the Bruins see everything's
alright
the
the room
mmm
still smells like going out again
the
a room
on
the
the
the
well they have brewed up and on his
friends
up this frame from feel a little bit
heavier
you confirm with honey
severe sunburn
its alright to me awesome exam also has
a queen
ok because everything's alright with
them just small
down the second box and see how much
that's gonna
although haven't really been drawing out
much new comb it all
here this is the frame at a few weeks
ago and pay back home
on
pollen coming in as a be there upon a
leg from
only way in 56 pounds very late for
reals pounds or for just from the
wooden when where boxes and frames
still have not
shoot through and gun revolver this
rubber bands
see attached well
this is college just not being used
so that they have really been hurting
ha their population hasn't been growing
like
I would expect this was a very big call
me like collected them from the
town home
you
frame for pawn
seem to be surviving just not thriving
lot of unused home
still isn't fully attached
and the numbers simply when one
keep an eye on them and see if things
get better
it's not looking good form
think of shrinking down their space even
more
you know just one box check back in
couple weeks and see other lookin
see if they're still looking just as
Graham