New stands

I went to paint the old bee stand and found the legs were starting to rot. The bees should be arriving back this weekend so I had to rush to make a new stand. Since I am planning on splitting the hive when they return, I went ahead and made two new stands with a larger front porch. I noticed watching the old stand that the bees really did not have enough room to land and hang out before they went inside.

I will be going with our local apiarist to remove the boxes of honey from the hives located throughout the orange groves. He will then extract the honey later at night when it is cool and all the local bees are in their homes.