3 July, 2010 - 2 pm

It was 86º at the Bee Yard, clear skies and windy.

Alpha Hive.
I only looked through the honey supers. Top honey super is untouched, no bees in it. Bottom honey super has a large number of bees. They are busy storing, curing honey and capping. Five frames are half way finished! The other five have some drawn comb, some curing honey.

Beta Hive
It looks like the bees swarmed! I looked through the three honey supers and found very few bees in them. The top honey super was untouched, no bees. The middle honey super had some bees and five frames with curing nectar. The bottom super has honey in six frames, five of those are completely capped. The remaining frames have honey scattered throughout the comb.

Although it looks like the bees swarmed I did not want to take apart the hive bodies. I will give them a week and see how they are doing.

Swarm hive
The bees are working in the top honey super. They are drawing comb and storing nectar. I didn't inspect the hive bodies this visit.