My friend, Erica (from "Kizzling Around",) came to visit this weekend. She took some really awesome pictures of the bees while she was here. Here is a picture of Erica all bee-suited up:
Here is a picture that I am actually really worried by. I am not sure how I spotted this, since bee eggs are very small, but I am sure that I saw two eggs in one cell. I read that the queen only ever lays one egg per cell, and if you see two eggs in a cell you almost certainly have a laying worker. Eggs look like a miniature, slender grain of rice in the center of a cell standing on end. Here is the cell that I think has two eggs in it (you can see that the surrounding cells have one egg per cell):
Here is a really high resolution picture that Erica took of some more bee eggs:
Here is a picture that Erica took of some larvae (the white things in some of the uncapped cells):
Another concerning thing that I spotted was this beetle (hiding in a cell, I found another one in the feeder, but I only saw two):
I also found this little bit of burr comb between the top and bottom deep (I scraped it off and saved it):
Here one more nice photo (of bees taking off and landing at the entrance of the hive):
Other than taking photos, I also fed the bees and started the fall treatment of Apiguard so I can ready the bees for the winter.
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