Its been a week since I started the bees back on a 1:1 sugar/water mix to see if that would encourage them to draw comb in the honey super. Well, I can report that, that little trick didn't work. The bees are not drawing comb at all in the honey super. I am going to continue to feed the bees with a 1:1 sugar/water mix for another week and see what happens.
I removed the honey super to see how things are going in the top brood super. I took four frames out to look for pests, and other stuff. The bees have quite a bit of honey and pollen stored in this upper brood box. There are still alot of capped brood scattered amongst the frames. I didn't see any wax moth, or hive beetles. So since I didn't see any signs of pests in this brood box and it smelled of honey I didn't bother checking the bottom brood box. I did check the bottom one a week ago and things looked very good.
The outside of the hive didn't have any ants or other pests.
I filled up the pvc moats with water, as well as the water troughs around the bottom board.
The grass is growing very well around the hive stand. I think I will use roundup to take care of that...
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