It was 82º at the backyard bee hive.
Backyard Bees
The bees are busy today. There was a lot of activity at the entrance, ten or so bees wandering around the landing board and ten or so in the entrance hanging out.
Opened up the top hive and found a hundred or so bees clustered around the feeder jar area. In the bottom middle three frames of the top hive there is comb being drawn! When I removed the top hive body, the comb that connected the two hive bodies was damaged.
The bottom hive body is looking good. Frames 10 and one now have bees wandering on them with some small areas of comb being drawn.
Frame 9 has a quarter of one side with comb and it contains maturing eggs as well as curing honey.
Frame 8 continues to be drawn out and the eggs/larva and capped brood are maturing.
On all of the frames that have comb, there are eggs that are at least a day old. So the queen is there and working hard.
Most of the frames have new bees hatching!. The bees are storing a lot of pollen on the frames.
Overall the hive is doing quite well.
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