A Storm Knocked the Hives

 

A very big oak branch came down and bashed two of my hives and knocked the back of the hive stand off its stone base. The branch was big enough that I had to put on the bee suit and fire up the chainsaw to cut it into sections to move.

The good news is that no real damage was done. A top super, inner cover, and top cover were knocked off a 10-frame hive, but the upper super was mostly empty and its light weight is why it popped off.

The narrow hive in the middle was knocked hard, but it’s a stack of 5-frame nuclear hives and was empty and ready if any of the other five hives decided to swarm. Again, the fact that this hive was empty was why it got knocked over to the extent it was. All is back in order now, and I don’t think too many bees were loss.