Reading Comb
An on-demand slide based course for understanding what you see when you look at bees living on comb.
Art Of:
Learn to understand what’s happening beneath all those moving bees.
What can you see? Pollen? Nectar? Royal jelly? Eggs? Brood? Abundance? Strength? Weakness? Illness?
All these things can be indicated on the comb.
Comb is the embodiment of the hive. It is their tissue, their skeletal structure, their nervous system, their nursery. How we see comb helps inform how we keep bees.
This is a two hour pre-recorded course.
What is Comb?
What You'll Learn
- How to hold comb (natural and on foundation)
- How to handle comb as you draw it out and put it back into hive
- What to look for: eggs, larvae, pollen, nectar, queen cell.
- How to find the queen
- How to recognize healthy vs sick brood
