Dan Finlay @danfinlayΒ·Apr 9, 2022Finally opening up a long occupied wall to try to transfer this bee hive with some intrepid bee keeping neighbors.109100
Dan Finlay @danfinlayΒ·Apr 10, 2022Replying to @vgrOlder comb gets darker. The darker sections are the old comb. Bees will reuse, refill, re-cap, comb any number of times. The lighter comb to the right is all the most recent expansion.13
Dan Finlay @danfinlayΒ·Apr 10, 2022Replying to @danfinlay and @vgrThat was what my bee keeper friends told me. The internet seems to say it's when the comb has been used for brood. So sure I guess older comb is more likely to have raised brood in any given cell, so the two claims kinda both work. https://aboutthebees.com/why-is-my-honeycomb-black/#:~:text=When%20areas%20of%20a%20hive's,the%20bee%20frames%20to%20blackenβ¦.11
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @danfinlayah nature has unending levels of weird detail12:08 AM Β· Apr 11, 20221 Like