Hive Check

The hive was humming, when I walked up. Clearly, the baby bees from a few weeks ago had hatched. Going thru the frames 1 on the edge was empty (not even comb). The other seven frames were packed with egg, c-shaped brood from one to three days old, and lots of capped cells. All in a beautiful semi circle.



The neighbors, and kids all came to look and learned a little bit more about bees.



We even saw the queen, on the first brood frame I pulled!

I added the purple hive stand to give them some landing room, and drilled into this to rigidify the nice ultimate stand we have. We also swapped out the bottom board for the screened bottom bottom board as summer is coming. As the brood chamber was pretty packed, we added a medium above and below the deep.

Current setup looks like this.



More pics of the bees and neighbors here.