Well it was day 4 since I installed a 4 frame nuc into my 10 frame Deep. I did the install at the yard where I picked up the nuc. I saw the marked Queen (yellow) an saw Brood at that time. Moved them to my yard and installed a hive top feeder with 1:1 and Honey -Bee- Healthy. Covered it up and lt it sit. It has been raining on and off the last 3 days and today has been a nice day.. mid 60's some sun little to no breeze.. I have seen the girls out and brining back pollen.
Ok so I make some more feed, light my smoker don my jacket and vail, Hive tool, brush , frame grip and camera and head to the hive...
About 20 girls flying around... I open up the top and remove the feeder ( which dosen't look like was even touched) no girls in there... Remove the inner cover...and see the girls working. I pop one of the un-drawn frames out to give room and start my insprction.
For reference I will uses #'s 1-10 from left to right to describe what I Saw. #'s 1,2,8,9,10.. nothing at all not even a single bee. # 3 Left side empty right side 2 small clusters looks like starting to draw some wax.
Frame 4 Left side (first look) 3/4 full wth bees larvae , some capped drone... Right side Has start od a supersede cell?
Frames 5 and 7 Both sides full of bees, Frame 6 Right side bees Left sid a caped Supersede cell?
Didnt find the queen and started to panic looked again and Found her on Frame 4
Closed everything up.. filled feeder to top and wlaked away... Cirls were very calm.. No Gloves , Few buzzed me but that was it. No stings..
Ok so I make some more feed, light my smoker don my jacket and vail, Hive tool, brush , frame grip and camera and head to the hive...
About 20 girls flying around... I open up the top and remove the feeder ( which dosen't look like was even touched) no girls in there... Remove the inner cover...and see the girls working. I pop one of the un-drawn frames out to give room and start my insprction.
For reference I will uses #'s 1-10 from left to right to describe what I Saw. #'s 1,2,8,9,10.. nothing at all not even a single bee. # 3 Left side empty right side 2 small clusters looks like starting to draw some wax.
Frame 4 Left side (first look) 3/4 full wth bees larvae , some capped drone... Right side Has start od a supersede cell?
Frames 5 and 7 Both sides full of bees, Frame 6 Right side bees Left sid a caped Supersede cell?
Didnt find the queen and started to panic looked again and Found her on Frame 4
Closed everything up.. filled feeder to top and wlaked away... Cirls were very calm.. No Gloves , Few buzzed me but that was it. No stings..
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