Jacob Springs honey program
From RAWiki
Jacob Springs Farm produces comb honey from about 15 topbar beehives.
Their hives are a combination of farm-built Jacob Springs topbar hives and OpenSourceBeehive project's Colorado Topbar which Andre Houssney helped to design.
Beehive activity observations January 23, 2016 (The first warm sunny day for about 2 months)
- 1 active - cluster inside very little honey reserves
- 2 dirt on landing board no activity no window
- 3 very light activity dead bees in entrance – cluster inside
- 4 no activity lots of pulverized comb at entrance Dead inside
- 5 very active some dirt near entrance –
Clusters inside
- 6 no activity dead inside
- 7 1 bee at entrance alive others dead no window
- 8 light activity no window
- 9 light activity no window
- 10 light activity good cluster inside few honey reserves
- 11 light activity at entrance dirty landing board – dead inside
- 12 no activity at entrance some be parts fairly healthy cluster inside no food
13 no activity outside no bees inside
- 14 good activity no window
Swarm hive by shop - died
Action taken: Fed syrup water to bees for the first time ever - looks like honey stores are largely consumed - bees fed heavily