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After having installed my bees on Saturday, I opened up the hives today - the weather was warm, sunny and breezy...perfect!
The bees had already begun drawing out the few frames of foundation that were among the drawn comb in the bottom brood boxes. bees were returning with pollen, and they've been going through the sugar syrup like crazy! I added a second deep to the first, and switched positions of the colonies, as one had about twice the number of bees as the other. i removed the queen cages and added the final frame.
my top-bar hive is doing very nicely, but is not using as much syrup as the other two, but the other two are storing the syrup in drawn comb - that makes a world of difference. now i'll wait till saturday or sunday before i check on them again... hard to keep my hands off
The bees had already begun drawing out the few frames of foundation that were among the drawn comb in the bottom brood boxes. bees were returning with pollen, and they've been going through the sugar syrup like crazy! I added a second deep to the first, and switched positions of the colonies, as one had about twice the number of bees as the other. i removed the queen cages and added the final frame.
my top-bar hive is doing very nicely, but is not using as much syrup as the other two, but the other two are storing the syrup in drawn comb - that makes a world of difference. now i'll wait till saturday or sunday before i check on them again... hard to keep my hands off