Looking good

Between the poor weather and me being so busy of late, I have not had the opportunities to really get inside the hives to properly check on the bees. I do check the outside activity almost daily and can easily see lots of flights coming and going, can see many pollen laden bees landing, I assume all is OK on the inside.

On Sunday the 19th, I was finally able to do proper hive inspections. Each hive has 2 deeps and a medium super on them. Both hives show capped brood, young larvae, nectar and pollen stores, and capped honey in both deeps. Neither hive is building comb into the medium super. Lots of activity. Interesting is that the bees this year appear to quickly fly up into me as I pull a frame out for inspection - this is behavior I don't recall seeing in the bees of last year. They weren't angry enough to be pinging off the veil or trying to sting the gloves; but, I was well aware of them flying about me for 15 sec or more as I first pulled a frame ... almost as if each frame had their own set of guard bees.

I did find the queen in each hive, and I saw no indications of moths, beetles or mites. I reassembled the hives, leaving the medium supers on top for expansion. Only one hive has a queen excluder on it as I currently only own one of them.

I'll post pictures as soon as I transfer them from the camera.


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