Bees!! (Mark III)

Seen in the photo is a partially constructed honeycomb, uncapped, with some nectar filling the uncapped hexagonal. All of the above sits in a plastic Rubbermaid container.
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Seen in the photo is a partially constructed honeycomb, uncapped, with some nectar filling the uncapped hexagonal. All of the above sits in a plastic Rubbermaid container.
This is the one comb that the apiarist saved for us. All the rest will go into the rehomed B’s new enclosure. Because they have baby bees in them and some of those will survive. What is in here is nectar, not honey because none of these cells is capped. He explained to me that honey. Only comes after nectar has been properly dehydrated by the bees, fanning it after capping it. All the family members have tasted this nectar. It taste like the wildflowers from our backyard. I intend to rinse the comb and melt it down into a beeswax candle.

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