August 25th - Removing Supers, Counting & Treating for Mites!

Today was a big day of beekeeping tasks! We had three things to accomplish today:

1) Remove all the honey supers
2) Count mites (so we know if our treatment works)
3) Treat for mites

We only counted two mites on Beeatrice's sample.  Penelobee we saw one blob that I'm not certain was a mite, so we'll say we had 0-1 on her sample.  We spent two hours with the bees today...it was nice that we had cooler temperatures today and the bee suite actually felt good!

The bottom honey supers were pretty empty...they didn't fill those in like we had hoped over the last few weeks.  But, we still will end up with a lot more honey than last year! Dad will take the frames home and store the frames until we are able to extract the honey later this fall, and now the bees will have some time to build up their winter stores.

Me and Dad! Photo credit: my mom, Rollie Brandt!

Here's a video of what we did! I wish you could hear the buzz of the bees this week, but my GoPro waterproof case blocks the mic a bit too much. I put in a little music though this time so you don't get bored, haha!  Enjoy!