Alpha Hive
Outside and at the entrance there was a lot of activity, much more than the beta hive. I opened the honey super and found that the girls are not doing anything in it!
I removed the honey super and began inspecting the frames of the top hive body. I looked through 7 of the ten frames. I found eggs so the queen is there and busy. I noticed that the top hive body has a couple of frames that are filled with honey and pollen. I am hoping they will have a surplus.
Three slo-mo Movies of the entrance area of the Alpha Hive
Beta Hive
It didn't seem as busy as it usually is outside at the entrance, but there were some bees coming and going.
Opened up the top honey super to see what the girls were doing. There were a lot of bees in the north side of the honey super on two frames but I could not tell if there was any comb being drawn. The rest of the honey super frames didn't have the bees on them.
I removed the honey super to look through the frames of the top hive body.
I looked through 8 out of ten frames. I didn't bother looking through the last two frames.
The eight frames had a lot of eggs and larva at different stages of maturation.
There seemed to be plenty of capped brood among the frames. I noticed that of the 8 frames 3 frames had only honey and some of the honey was capped. Hopefully the girls will move up into the honey super.
Beta Hive Photos
This is the tenth frame in the top hive super. The girls have begun drawing comb!!! Hopefully they will begin this process in the honey super
This is frame 9 or 8, either way this is what they look like right now! That frame is loaded with uncapped honey...
In these next 2 photos, couple of hatchlings can be seen chewing through the wax cell caps getting ready to climb out into the hive.
This is a closer shot of the previous image...
These three photos are of the same frame. Eggs can be seen, as well as several bees climbing out of their cells...
This is a slo-mo movie of the activity happening under the Beta Hive today
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