Time to expand (Part 2)

On Saturday, we decided to give Chewbacca a honey super. Katie did all the work, I just took the pictures!

Smoking the bees down.
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Next comes the queen excluder.
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Place the honey super on top of the queen excluder.
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Plastic covering to keep the bees from building comb on the cover.
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Place the cover over the plastic. Done! Copyright Jason Hotham 2016

Good work, Katie! Now both colonies can get to work drawing out comb in the honey supers. The forecast for this week shows a lot of pleasant weather with plenty of sunshine. The bees should be ramping up activity.

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