Laurence Edwards checks his Ross Round sections as colonies rapidly draw comb and fill it with honey. At the current pace, sections will be ready to harvest in one to two weeks. A sudden spike in aggression forced him to requeen multiple colonies.
Right, quick update on the Ross Round sections. The colonies here are just going wild. I need to sort out this apiary because the bees here are not friendly. They've really gone downhill since last year, so a lot of requeening is going to have to take place. But oh my goodness, they are doing the business when it comes to bringing in the honey, and they're really starting to work on these Ross Round sections as well. So I just wanted to do an update on this video, just showing halfway what the Ross Rounds look like as the bees begin to work them. Let's get inside now and I'll show you just how much progress the bees have made on their Ross Round sections. So the bees are making very, very good progress with this Ross Round section rack. You can see down the cracks there, they're starting to draw out the comb. I'll pull out a frame, I'll show you just how well they're drawing out that foundation. These aren't going to take that long before they're completely full of honey and capped over as well. So as you can see, bees are going for it. This one here is what it looks like just as they're starting to draw it out, and then this one here is what it looks like when they start to put a decent amount of honey in it, and then this one here, they're even Starting to cap it over. Ross rounds are amazing because the bees will work them all the way up into the corner. You don't often get that with square section wax, and this is a real benefit that you get with Ross rounds in terms of the end presentation. These are not far off at all being complete. If the flow continues the way it is, I reckon we're talking a week, maybe 2 weeks maximum. I love the look of these though, and I just can't wait to open them up, get them packaged, and to dive in and taste some of that honey. So there we go, not much longer to go. Oh my goodness, I do not like the bees in this apiary. I was going to use this as my mating apiary this year and they've just turned horrible all of a sudden, so I'm going to have to completely rethink that. There's no way I'm mating queens in this apiary with the drones and the bees being as angry as they are at the moment. Not good at all. However, the Ross Rounds are looking fantastic. We've crowded them down, we've got them working into the Ross Round sections. We're only a couple of weeks away now from them capping those over, and what I'm going to do as soon as they're ready, I'm going to take them off, move over to harvesting.
