The Second Super

Great news… Isabees received the super frames and had them all assembled and ready for pick up. I hustled in to grab them and after another quick peek at the first supers, decided to go ahead and add them to the hives. I hope this wasn’t a mistake. Time will tell. I could see that honey was being capped on the outside frames on hive two and I am assuming hive one isn’t far behind that. Hopefully the bees will continue to work and draw out the second super frames as beautifully as they did the first.

I’ll touch base with my mentor in the next few days to see if he approves of this move I made on my own. Hopefully I haven’t botched anything too terribly. To be fair, I didn’t completely make the decision on my own – a few beekeepers at the bee store thought it would be ok to go ahead and add another super, but they did say to check with my mentor (I didn’t completely listen). It’s pretty exciting to think we could be harvesting honey in another month or so. I’m really hoping nothing goes terribly wrong between now and then that would but our honey harvest in jeopardy. We (mostly the bees) have put a lot of effort in this spring and summer, it would sure be nice to share some of their sweet goodness with friends and family. In the meantime, just hoping we can sail smoothly into the honey harvest. 

-Worker Bee 2021