The honey super has been flipped over to drain the honey out. The bees are still calmly wandering over the hive.
Next the honey is strained through a mesh sieve.
Can you smell the sticky sweetness?
From 2019 I am living a more relaxed life. After 35 years I am retired from engineering practice.
You can expect me to mention retirement projects, travel and of course the beloved.
My hobbies may include nature, camping, repair, and reading.
The honey super has been flipped over to drain the honey out. The bees are still calmly wandering over the hive.
Next the honey is strained through a mesh sieve.
Can you smell the sticky sweetness?
I intend to leave most of the propolis (mixture of bee wax and tree resin) so the bees can quickly rebuild.
The bees are still very calm - they are crawling around the hive and not flying in a defensive cloud.
When a native bee hive weighs about 9 kg then it is read to be harvested.
The overall hive dimensions are 200mm x 280mm x 295mm (high). The box is has three pieces. The bottom piece and middle piece form a single chamber for the brood. The middle level (mid box) is sealed at the top to separate it from the top piece (honey super) except for a connecting hole towards the top-back.
The front of the bottom piece has a main entrance (12mm diameter). The back of the mid box has a hole of a vent (7mm diameter).
The thoney super is a chamber much smaller than the combined chamber of the bottom and middle pieces. Bees enter it by going through the brood chamber to the top-back and passing through the connecting hole.
The position of the entrance between the mid box and the honey super means that the bees are likely to store only honey in the top level.
The painted design on the front is to help the bees find the right hive.
I changed my preferred brand of clothes peg.
But for all the brands I have used, they all break at the hinge.
I once went bush waking (with a friend) through Guy Fawkes National Park. We camped at Marengo Creek near where it joins Guy Fawkes River in New South Wales : 30.125211 degrees South, 152.301443 degrees West.
I went for a swim in the creek in a large basin. The circular hole was made made by a fallen tree when its roots lifted from the earth. As I cooled off in the water up to my neck, small fish swam up and began to nibble at my skin - it was a strange tickling sensation and very enjoyable.
Thunder-days are an old measure of storm activity - The modern measure is lightning flash density.
The first map I used in the 1980's was hand drawn and black and white and old. It also showed Darwin with the highest activity with over 80 thunder days and Brisbane with slightly less.
The modern map shows Brisbane is not nearly as bad as for lightning as previously thought.
Gas lighting was nominated as word of the year yesterday by Mirrium-Webster. When I look it up, the source of the term is nomin...