Shaking Remaining Bees and Finalizing the Relocation

it's the warmer months so we'll put a screen top cover on and then we'll put our regular top cover on it okay we'll set our cinder block back on the top of the hive now you can hear and see that there's a little bit of confusion going on right now because the bees notice there's a difference something's different here where do we go what do we do well it's going to take them a few hours to realize hey the hives changed we're still in the same spot but the hive looks a little bit different so just so you know it's gonna take them a day or so to figure out so there'll be a little bit of confusion for a while but they'll do just fine we're gonna go over to the next box before we go to the next box let's talk a little bit about the construction of a hive and what's inside so the first thing you get to is the top cover this is a commercial top cover very very simple that little mark is from where I had an inner cover inside there so the top cover is first then for the summertime we put a screened inner cover and that's what you're seeing there in the winter time this would be all wood and this sits right on top of the honeybee hive like this and then the lid goes on now inside here this is an eighth frame hive there would be eight frames and this is a frame and this is what they look like before the bees draw out the comb that is basically a frame with what we call foundation and you see these little stripes that's wire to hold the foundation in place and when you put it on your honey extractor it doesn't rip apart if it didn't have that little wire holding it in place when you put it in your honey