Tag: feeding

6pm, 87 degrees. Medium humidity.

Hive #1, very little change in the past two weeks since I last inspected. Maybe more bees, but not many more. Couldn’t identify queen, but she is laying on all frames that are drawn. There is about 4 square inches of comb drawn on one of the wax-foundation frames, but otherwise they don’t seem to want to work on it at all. I didn’t refill the feeder in between inspections, so they were dry. Larva in all stages, good stores of pollen, nectar and sugar water, though, just not growing very much. Identified brand new bees chewing their way out of their capped cells. Fed <1qt sugar water (what was left in the bottle).

Hive #2, visibly more bees. They had drawn about a 10″ length of comb in the space between the inner cover and outer cover, so I had to scrape that off. There are lots of larva in all stages. Identified queen. All frames except 2-3 have new eggs or larva on them (only 2 are not completely drawn). Lots of pollen, nectar and sugar water stores. This week or next I will probably have to add a new box to them.

Hive 1 seems to be doing well. They have some capped honey and more nectar and pollen. They also have new eggs as well. They have drawn comb on one more frame to the right (last black plastic foundation). No drawn comb yet on the wax foundation. They do not have anything stored yet in that frame. Growing, but slowly. Identified queen. Fed 1qt sugar water.

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Hive 2 is doing very well. The bees were coming out the inner cover when I opened it. They have more capped honey, more stores of nectar and pollen and more drawn comb including some on two of the new frames with wax foundation. Some stores in that newly drawn comb. Looks like good brood patterns. I’d guess that we’ll see noticeably more bees next week. Identified queen. Identified queen. Fed 1qt sugar water.

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6pm 88 degrees. Both feeders empty. Fed 2qt.

Hive 1. New capped honey, new eggs, found queen. No new comb. Good brood patterns. Some larva on bottom screen.

Hive 2. New comb on left empty frame. Lots of new pollen of all different colors. New eggs, new nectar. More capped honey.