I thought I would check the Alpha Hive to see if the queen cells hatched. So far they have not. The bees are very busy storing honey and pollen. There are alot less bees so it seems they swarmed again.
The Beta Hive still has alot of bees. Couldn't find any queen, eggs or larva. But the supercedure cells look good, hopefully they will hatch soon. I did a bit of checker boarding in the Beta hive to reduce congestion. The frames I removed had curing honey and pollen. I put those about 50' from the hive so they get cleaned out.
I have done the checkerboarding to the Alpha and Beta Hive. I noticed that the Alpha Hive has already started to draw comb on one of the foundation frames.
While I was gathering up some pine straw for the smoker my Dad spotted a swarm of bees clinging to a fallen branch that was near the bee yard.
We gathered up the necessary equipement to hive the swarm. This time though, we used a queen excluder in between the bottom board and the hive body to keep the queen. Four frames of comb with pollen and uncured honey were installed, the rest of the frames are foundation. A jar of sugar water was installed and I will check on them tomorrow.
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