Went into the hive for a check and also to switch the rubbermaid lid. We put in the rubbermaid as a mote to stop the ants, but with so many bees drowned we wanted to switch to individual tupperwares under each leg of the hive stand. Unfortunately from the picture below I had to substitute the 4 tupperware I'd brought for this with 2 others. I'll go and add the ones at the back later.
In the hive was thriving. Previously, I set it up with a fresh medium, deep (built out), and another fresh medium on top. The top medium had six frames packed with brood, pollen, and nectar/sugar solution. All eight frames of the deep were also packed. The lower medium was empty. Both boxes with brood had queen cells, probably around 10-15. I crushed all them as I went through the frames. The medium also had some frames with small patches of bullet shaped drone cone. There was also small patches of burr comb in a few places.
I pulled a foundation from one medium frame, and shoved some burr into the corners, with the intention that this can be a drone comb space for them. Given the density in the upper two boxes, I put the deep back on the bottom, and checkerboarded the two mediums.
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