Post #1859949

Here is what an over-performer my one hive is. We installed two nucs on April 8th. Today I needed to add a super brood box because in 15 days they had drawn out comb on the 5 new frames, filled them out and were starting to run out of room. I got caught flat footed because I had extra deep boxes but they weren't assembled. I assembled one yesterday and one today. I had to put it in unpainted because I don't have time to let it dry and air out. I will paint the second one this weekend and the next time I go in that hive I will replace the unpainted box with the painted one. What I've seen online says you should let a box sit two weeks after painting before putting in service so that VOC from the paint doesn't bother the bees. In order to have done that, I would have had to know on the day I installed them that they were going to run out of room 2 weeks later. It would have seemed crazy at the time to do that, but here we are. #bees #beekeeping