The Escaping Wallaby

Where's Mushi when you need him? Can you see the wallaby escaping from our vegetable garden? Tasmania is abundant in wildlife, and they enjoy early morning trips to the vegetable garden, just like us. This morning I also spotted a rabbit and two potoroos.

We protect the garden with a chicken wire fence held up with star droppers, driven into the earth. Kangaroos and wallabies have been known to jump our fence, a future goal is to build a stronger 6 foot high fence. With rabbit and possum protection to bottom and top of fence.

Bee Hive II not looking good

A brood box frame has very dark brown comb.

Our second hive doesn't look good. Very dark brown/black comb in the brood box. The supers have a similar look. But there are some eggs in the cells and on the top photo you can see drones walking around, maybe the queens there somewhere. 

Our bee keeping books says, the tan/brown cap is brood. That means there should be little baby bees under these brown caps. You can see this in the bottom photo.

Brood in a super

There is a lot of bees in the hive so I hope it will be ok. But when I compare this hive with the other hive it looks poor. The other hive is dripping in honey! Heavy frames loaded with capped honey! We really don't know what we are doing, so I wonder if there is something wrong. Perhaps the hive swamped and the brown comb is because it's old and they are re-building the hive with a new queen.