20 March, 2010 - 1 pm

It was a clear day, slightly breezy and 74º.

Alpha Hive

The hive had thousands of bees on the front of the hive. I did a hive inspection and examined both hive bodies.

I did not find any eggs or young uncapped brood. All I found was capped brood. I could not find the queen. I did find 8 hatched queen swarm cells and 2 supercedure cells.

I did find that both hive bodies have curing honey and pollen everywhere.

The bees are so numerous that they were clinging to each other on the frames of both hive bodies. So on the top hive box I removed 5 frames that didn't have brood and put in frames with just foundation to give the bees something to do.

I will be ordering a queen this coming monday, if any are available.



Beta Hive

I did a quick inspection, but only looked through the top hive body. I found eggs, larva and capped brood, so this hive seems to have a queen!!! I did find that this hive also has honey and pollen stored everywhere. I did install a honey super to help with this, but I might have to remove some frames to reduce a potential congestion problem.