re: First honey pull tomorrow - Today update

Well, teachable moment then. I'm no expert, but:

You've seen beehives, usually white wooden boxes. Normally there are 2 or 3 boxes stacked up. Bees enter from the bottom. The boxes each have 10 removable rectangular frames hanging in them. Bees build honeycomb on those frames. Queen generally lays eggs in the comb in the bottom box (brood box) and the workers raise the babies there. The workers generally make and store honey in the top box. When the all the frames in the top box are full of honey, you take some out, replace with new frames and pull the honey from the frames you took. That's the honey you eat.

Nuc - is short for "nucleus". It's basically a small bee colony you buy or take from another hive. Each box has 10 frames in it, a "nuc" is 5 frames which have honey, pollen, eggs, about 10,000 bees, and a Queen. You put that nuc into a hive box, add 5 more new frames to get to 10, and hope the population keeps growing and they start building comb and making honey.

Super - the box that goes on top of the bottom brood box. This is where the bees make and store honey.

Pull - you spin the frames in a device and centrifugal (sp?) force pulls the honey out of the comb, flings it against the inside of the container, it drains to the bottom.

Sorry for the length (ha! never said that before).