AC's Bees

June 2, 2026:

Today we went out to check on the beehives and add honey supers.

Somehow, in just a couple of weeks, one of our hives swarmed and moved into the extra honey super boxes we had stacked in the bee yard. Definitely wasn't expecting that, but I guess we got a free extra hive!

We put queen excluders on our original two hives so the queens won't lay eggs in the honey supers. That way the bees can fill those boxes with honey instead.

We also carefully took apart the new wild hive, found the queen, and put a queen excluder on that hive too. Hopefully it'll settle in, and we'll be able to get some honey from it as well.