11 July, 2009 - 12:30pm

It was partly cloudy, light wind and around 90º at the bee yard.

I opened up the top honey super of the alpha hive and found that the girls are storing honey in various frames. So I removed it and got out all of the bees in that super and set it aside. I looked through three frames of the remaining honey super and found that the girls are busy storing honey and capping it throughout the super. So I left one honey super on the hive. I did not do a hive inspection at this time.

I opened up the beta hive. I removed and examined two frames. One frame has one side of fully capped honey. The other side has about two inched of capped honey and the rest is open cells. I found eggs in most of these cells. The second frame had some eggs, some capped honey cells and quite a bit of cells filled with curing honey. Today I put a honey super on this hive, but I did install a queen excluder.