Today was scheduled to be an apiary visit from the Loudoun Country Day School, but that got rained out and rescheduled. So we used to time to catch up on a few things. Richard caught a swarm in the rain that had landed 20 feet up in a tree using the old 2″ socket tied to string thrown over the branch trick.
We also cleaned up old frames and put foundation in 61 of them using a combination of wire, foundation pins and bobby pins.
We also got to break out the frame making jig and assemble some new frames. The way it works is there’s a wooden box that holds 10 frame ends in place so that you can put on 10 top and bottom bars. There is a spring like you might find closing your back screen door that holds the jig together and that you undo to remove the newly assembled frames.
A vitex tree and some dahlias were donated for the apiary gardens. Nuc sales timing and quantities were planned.
