Hello! This is Bee-Keeper Tish. I have much to share regarding the top-bar hive. The girls are now building on the 14th bar! There is also honey on the last frame. I have checker-boarded in partial comb bars into the main part of the hive so that they fill them out. This seems to be working. It is getting up to 90’s this weekend so I pulled the bottom boards to allow more ventilation. I pulled the sugar water feed a few weeks ago since we have so much in bloom with the extra rainfall we have had. This is unusual for us in May-June. Often we have had a killing frost in the early weeks of June. Not this year! It is over the top hot and jumping into summer weather very quickly. The extra thunderstorms and rain have been surprising. I don’t recall a Spring like this in Spokane since I was a kid. I’ll add some photos of the hive. This is sure a fun way to keep bees!
