r/Beekeeping

Novice bee keepers, here. We've had one or two hives for the last three years, but our number of hives exploded this year catching swarms, and taking a few hives from people getting out of the hobby. So though We've been doing this a few years, we're still very new.

Anyway, we pulled honey frames from our most established hives two weeks ago. At the time, we were swamped and set the frames aside until we could harvest. Today we pulled the honey and thought all was well. We found little larva in the money, after we'd combined and filtered everything into a 5 gal bucket. I looked online and these seem to be SHB larva, and it seems like this honey is ruined.

Before we actually dump all of this beautiful honey, can anyone advise/confirm what we think we did? We didn't know to freeze the frames if we couldn't extract the honey right after we pulled the frames. Did we make a huge, rookie mistake?!

Located in zone 6

Queen cell or just wayward comb?

I’ve only seen a waggle dance once before in person. This time I was able to catch a video!
Just passed my one year beek anniversary 😁

That summer me and my pops made the dark blue hive it was an amazing experience and now seeing that a strong family of bees live there is amazimg (this video was taken in june the family was still getting stronger)

Neatest picture of my hives in my 3 years with bees.

This is commonly known as camphorweed, and it's massively common in North America and Central America, with a range extending from somewhere in Canada in the north, down to Belize in the south, and from Massachusetts all the way west to California.

It's hardy, fast-growing, and it tolerates poor soil and salinity. Very much the kind of thing that you will find growing in places where little else will grow.

I've seen it for years, but I've never seen honey bees show interest in it until yesterday, when I went for a stroll and saw them working on it in great numbers.

Genus Heterotheca contains something like sixty species, some of them much less widespread than this one, which is the type species for the genus. As far as I know, all of them are native to North America or Central America. I'm not sure if any have been exported as invasive or exotic plants.

I'm also not really sure whether this is a honey source or a pollen source, or both.