{"id":1849,"date":"2012-07-20T17:51:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T00:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2012-07-20T17:51:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T00:51:49","slug":"beepocalypse-lesson-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=1849","title":{"rendered":"Beepocalypse – lesson learned"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fact that every comb built since the beginning had been so perfectly straight made me loose the habit of checking every frame. Horrible mistake, what started as a little bump in an early bar became more and more angled resulting in comb crossing bars. When I caught it, it was simply too late and a major operation had to be done to set things straight. Comb fell, deep cutting needed to be done & a ton of bees died in the process. I lost half of my honey production & half of my colony. There was just no easy way to do this.<\/p>\n

The lesson learned here is to inspect often and all the bars, especially when the bees lay a lot of comb.<\/p>\n

Some crossed comb, when things weren’t ugly enough that I was still taking pictures<\/em><\/p>\n

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Here are some tips to incentivize the bees to build straight:<\/p>\n