Saturday, August 3, 2013

Found the queen

the new hive is still doing well. today I opened the hive to replenish their sugar water and take a closer look for the queen and yes, i found her finally.
I watched her for a little while and she's moving from cell to cell at a good clip (about 20 seconds per cell).
there isn't many capped brood cells yet but hopefully by next weekend she'll have a good brood going
when i moved them from the swarm box to the new hive there was just a small comb with less than 20 cells, now there are 5 bars with comb and going strong.
none of the comb has yet filled out all the way, but considering the drought and nectar sources being low, they're doing well


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