Mongrel Hive

[dug_6238]

I'm posting this photo as fodder for another forum. I'll know I'll be the subject of a few rants for this, so my apologies in advance.

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z219/dug_6238/100_2105.jpg

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[sqkcrk]

Quite a frame of brood. I'd love to have that in my hives.

I wonder if the uncapped cells that are in line w/ each other are from the wires? They seem to be.

[Aisha]

That's a great photo with beautiful geometry in the laying pattern.

I notice the missing "bullet holes" that form straight vertical lines about equi-distant. That's where bees have already hatched out (?).

Just read Sqkcrk's post about the wires. Hm.

Amazing.

[Jeffrey Todd]

Very nice, Dug. How old is the queen and the colony? Looks like a new frame.

[beemandan]

I wonder if the uncapped cells that are in line w/ each other are from the wires? They seem to be.

Likely where the reinforcing wires are located. It sometimes seems to take a brood cycle or so before they begin to produce brood over them. I don't know if the queen refuses to lay eggs in the cells or if the brood doesn't develop properly.