A Surprise Harvest

[liralen]

I pulled my sticky board from the screened bottom board and found that there were a pretty good number of mites stuck to it, so I knew I wanted to treat the girls with more of the powdered sugar. (You can see them in the close up of the picture under the cut that they're pretty thick on the "sticky board". It's actually a piece of cardboard with

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[archangelbeth]

*makes happy "I am glad you write this even if I have no other real comments of substance" noises*

[liralen]

*beams* thank you...

[tallcedars]

Reading about your hive always makes me hungry. Luckily I have a jar of wildflower honey in the cupboard downstairs. Gotta go!

[liralen]

Yum!

[agrimony]

They have nifty spinner contraptions you can just slide the frames into and spin the honey out after slicing off to tops of the combs. :)

[liralen]

They do! And the local beekeepers association even lends one out to anyone that needs it, but they're kind of a bear to clean and relative to just three frames a lot of honey can get wasted. So this is easier for a small haul, but I've seen one that's just built from a five gallon food grade bucket and uses a power drill to spin the frame. I might cobble one of those up eventually. *laughs*