7 May, 2010 - 9 am

It was partly cloudy, no wind and about 80º.

Swarm Hive
No signs of ants, activity at entrance of hive looks normal. There were bees coming and going and a few guard bees. Didn't open them up, I'll see if I need to do that this weekend.

Alpha Hive
Checked the honey super and no bees were there. Removed it and looked through the top hive body. All of the frames are being worked by the bees, about 6 frames are drawn out completely and have food, eggs/larva/capped brood. Four frames are partially drawn out, some have pollen and curing nectar. The bottom hive body has 6 frames drawn out and have eggs/larva/capped brood, curing nectar and pollen. Four frames are untouched, the bees just didn't do anything with them. Swapped the top hive bottom to the bottom position and the bottom to the top position. The hive body that had four untouched frames, they were checkerboarded with the other six. Hopefully this encourage the bees to draw out the frames. I did put a honey super on this hive to give them some room.

Beta Hive
I checked on the top honey super and there bees in there doing what they do. The bottom honey super also had a lot of bees in it and the girls are starting to store honey!

I did not look in either hive body. I am concerned that they will swarm. There is so much activity at the hive entrance. There are at any time about twenty bees hanging out front fanning, cleaning and greeting.