first time bee keeper

[beebrave]

Hi Bee source!

My name is Sean i am a greenhorn organic farmer and beekeeper in Lake County, CA. My friend and i built a Kenyan Top Bar hive and i collected my first
swarm July 1st 2010. very exciting! i have since learned that the first step was the easy one and i still have so much to learn. Currently working on more KTBH
for the spring swarms of 2011.
I look forward to sharing here and learning with ya'll.
bzzzz.
sean mooney

[beebrave]

Here are some recent photos from the hive.
http://picasaweb.google.com/mooneyma...eat=directlink
not sure what i am looking at, but some things concerned me.
little white specks in honey. could be ant eggs or fungal?
the tan glossy material in the uncapped cells.
what is that? anyone know?

thanks for any constructive thoughts.

[bjoynes]

Welcome Sean,

And thanks for the wonderful pictures. Love the ant in the comb.

Best Regards

Bryn

[AmericasBeekeeper]

Welcome Sean. Those little specks are eggs and larva in royal jelly. The tan glossy is pollen they covered with honey. Your queen is a busy girl.

[S&H]

Welcome! From a neighbor to the South a few miles...

[dragonfly]

Hi beebrave, and welcome to Beesource.

[beebrave]

[beebrave]

do bees lay more than one egg in each cell? because it looks like multiple "eggs"

[WI-beek]

Not under normal healthy colony behavior. Search the internet for laying workers.

Here is one link

http://www.bushfarms.com/beeslayingworkers.htm