Backyard Bees
I have yet to name the hives, still working on a naming scheme.
The hive that swarmed last weekend...
I was inspecting the top hive body and found a queen! Its likely she is a new born, hopefully she will stick around. The bees attitude was pretty good considering they recently swarmed and I had honey supers and a hive body in pieces doing an inspection. After finding the queen I searched through a few more frames and found one frame with a queen cell that was capped! I removed the frame and put it aside. I buttoned up the hive and will check on them in a week.
The Swarm that I captured last weekend...
This is the first time that I opened the hive since bringing the bees on site. While inspecting the frames I found that the bees are very busy building comb on three frames. Many bees left with the queen sometime between last weekend and today but there were 4 frames of bees left. I did not see any eggs/larva or anything from the previous queen. That frame with the queen cell from from other hive...that is now in this hive. I am hoping that the queen is alive and was not killed by any other other queens. Hopefully this queen will hatch and take over this hive. I will monitor and add brood from the other hive to keep their numbers up.
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