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I live in Auburn, outside of Syracuse, we are Central New York, upstate is Albany and Hudson River area. 
Okay good, they definitely didn't need the medium. So they are on, what, 4 frames? Don't be surprised if it takes them a little while to catch up to the nuc. I'd get back in there tomorrow and try to correct the poorly drawn comb. It'll only get worse the longer you leave it.Thanks, I was pondering that but was wondering if I've been meddling with them too much as it is. I'll paint up some frames with wax and replace those that are in there and maybe see what for comb my buddy across the street has. He's been willing to help me out thus far and I'm setting the trap up for his benefit. Any built comb I can give them can only help.
Our cars are all covered with pollen but I don't know where it's from or if it's even anything they can use. The only thing we have here that I can think of is the arborvitae and I don't know if that's a pollen that they can use.That pollen that gets all over everything and makes people sneeze is almost always from wind pollenated plants, around here the spring pollen explosion is the pines. The bees can use that pollen, but it's not very high in nutrition and they will typically collected something else if it's available.
