Friday, April 29, 2011

Another hive check -- all looks well

Karl opened up the hive today and saw that the queen was going gangbusters laying eggs. She was in the super just under the queen excluder because those frames were filled with eggs. The super on the bottom of the hive was nearly empty though so the bees were coming into the hive and just going straight through. Trying to prevent the hive from swarming due to lack of space, Karl rotated the super with the queen down on the bottom and placed a new super on top of the queen excluder. Hopefully that will keep them happy and leave plenty of room for them to get busy making honey.

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