Today, Michelle brought me out a single brood box of eight frames as a gift. I'm going to leave the traveling screen on until I get the sugar water into them.
It's next to the strong North hive. I went into the North Hive this morning. It is ery active, lots of bees but the queen has not moved up into the upper box. There's no new comb being built out for her and I don't have drawn comb to put up there.
I did a quick check for swarm cells, but I believe it's too early. The few drone cells that I checked did not have purple eyes.
In the South Hive, there was less activity. And only a few bees walking around in the upper brood box.
I think it's still too early, I will need to look at the timing of the purple eyed drones and see if we can't get swarm management under control this year.
I need to order the small hive beetle poison for the beetle traps and to do a mite count in the next weekend.
Both of the hive seemed rather calm. The population in the South Side was clearly smaller.
Both are bringing in pollen and both have good supplies.
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