Monday, May 2, 2016

Hive inspection 4.23.16

Two weeks after the split I did another inspection just to look at the overall health of the hive. We found some good stashes of pollen,brood, larvae (which it turns out I can never spell!) In addition to lots of workers, we found a capped queen cell (that I kinda ripped)
     

Turns out I didn't know where to look for them. I guess they are often at the top of a frame like this one. Not sure why my girls were making a queen, but I'm thinking about making more room (perhaps adding a medium in the next few days)
Did a bit more peeking around and found the QUEEN! Wow- we haven't seen her since we installed her a year ago! Pretty cool!
  
Interesting- I was hooting and hollering I can tell you what!

So excited was I that I dropped my favorite hive tool into the hive. Oh well, I get it in a few days after I build the medium + frames to keep them from thinking they should leave!

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