{"id":235,"date":"2009-07-27T12:15:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/?p=235"},"modified":"2009-07-28T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T15:02:18","slug":"apiary-update-up-to-6-hives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2009\/07\/27\/apiary-update-up-to-6-hives\/","title":{"rendered":"Apiary Update &#8211; Up to 6 Hives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of activity in the bee yard this weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Found some queen cups and cells in Macintosh &#8211; here you can see a new queen is chewing her way out of the bottom of the  circled cell.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-237\" title=\"A new queen is chewing her way out of the bottom of the circled cell.\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/queen-cell1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"A new queen is chewing her way out of the bottom of the circled cell.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/queen-cell1-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/queen-cell1-684x1024.jpg 684w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/queen-cell1.jpg 856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new queen is chewing her way out of the bottom of the circled cell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The bees have started capping honey for the winter. Hope there will be enough good weather and plants for them to make some for us, too.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-238\" title=\"Capped Honey in Roger\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/capped-honey-in-roger-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Capped Honey in Roger\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/capped-honey-in-roger-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/capped-honey-in-roger-1024x685.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/capped-honey-in-roger.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capped Honey in Roger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the new queen emerging from Mac, I split her off into her own &#8220;nuc&#8221; (nucleus hive). The newest one is the third from the left with the blue-colored center box. So we are up to 3 full size hives (for honey production) and 3 nucs (to overwinter for full hives next season).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-239\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-239\" title=\"3 full hives and 3 nuc (nucleus) hives\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/up-to-six-hives-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"3 full hives and 3 nuc (nucleus) hives\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/up-to-six-hives-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/up-to-six-hives-1024x684.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/up-to-six-hives.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3 full hives and 3 nuc (nucleus) hives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of activity in the bee yard this weekend&#8230; Found some queen cups and cells in Macintosh &#8211; here you can see a new queen is chewing her way out of the bottom of the circled cell. The bees have started capping honey for the winter. Hope there will be enough good weather and plants &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2009\/07\/27\/apiary-update-up-to-6-hives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apiary Update &#8211; Up to 6 Hives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17,147,18,20,19],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beekeeping","tag-bee","tag-beekeeping","tag-bees","tag-hive","tag-honeybee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}