Observing Hive Behavior: A Closer Look at Honey Stores and Brood Formation

Here to form more brood here, which is fantastic. Look at that.

More honey stores that they’re capping. So that’s a great sign because that means that we’ve got a lot of, kept a lot of honey stores for them to use in the hive. They’re actually, if you have a look here, this is what it looks like when they’re closing in the caps. So see how this open cells here and then there’s closed cells over here and in between you’ve got partially closed ones. So straight away I can tell that the honeyflow is continuing and they’re able to, can keep creating honey by depositing more nectar and dewatering it and closing the cap server to store it for later. So looking at the comb tells a story.