23 July, 2010 - 12 pm

Backyard Bees
The bees have been storing honey in both honey supers. The top honey super has a lot of bees in it and they are storing honey throughout the frames. The bottom honey super has four full frames of honey and they are starting to cap. The remaining frames are being drawn out and filled with honey. I looked through four frames of the top hive body. Frame one has more drawn comb and some eggs and honey. Frame two has more drawn comb and a lot of eggs on both sides. Frames three and four are filled with capped brood, and empty cells have eggs.

Alpha Hive
There were not any ants on the hive or the hive stand.
There are about 60 bees on the front porch cleaning and milling around. The top honey super had a few hundred bees. They are storing honey in there but not focused on this super. Bottom super has 6 capped frames. There are two frames that are full of honey and are being capped. The remaining two frames have some drawn comb and some stored honey.

Beta Hive
There were no ants on the hive or in the hive or on the hive stand. Top honey super had very few bees. Most of the bees are in the top hive body and bottom hive body. I started looking through the frames of the top hive body. I found the queen on frame three! and she was laying eggs!!!! I found eggs on frame one and two. After I found the queen I stopped removing frames. I did notice that two of the frames that were installed last week that were foundation, now have drawn comb! The hive is on the rebound.

Swarm Hive
I was unable to inspect the hive today. I spilled insecticide on my gloves while pouring it around the hive stand for this hive.