Today the body, roof and legs were all attached. The window was given a shutter with a fastener, a wire mesh was added to the underside of the body and a tray was created.
The mesh allows the varroa mites to fall out of the hive and prevents other animals such as wasps getting into the hive, stealing the honey and killing the bees. It's important to keep track of the number of vorroa in a hive and the tray allows you to count the number of varroa mites that have fallen out of the hive.
The last job of the day was to put raw linseed oil on all the wood (except for the inside of the hive body) to weather proof it. Raw linseed oil has none of the nasties that other weather proofing materials have such as solvants that could get into the honey. The only problem with it is that it will take several weeks to truely dry!
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