Today was huge milestone… I was able to get honey from 2 full flow frames.
They slowly started o use them after I lightly coated each face of each frame with wax recovered from burr comb from their hive. I used a small paint roller and rolled molten wax onto each face as I said above.
There has always been plenty of activity - just nothing to show for it.
Here is a shot of the frame half coated with the wax. You can see that the bees have been at work and ‘repaired’ the cells but they didn’t do anything after that. Obviously the top half of this shot is the waxed area.
And today …
There it is… a long time in the making but eventually success…