Ok just got done checking on the bees. :) :) When I opened the lid I could hear a strong buzzing sound. Have not heard that in a long time. I took out two frames from the top hive body, a deep 10 frame :-\, and did not see any eggs, larva, or that many bees. Well there were more because all mine were gone. Anyway I looked down into the bottom hive body and noticed bees on top of the frames aas if the frames were full :?. I decided to take off the top hive body and noticed it was sticing to the bottom, strange because I just had it off a week ago. After getting the top body off I had to just setp back and cry. I saw the frames were bubbling with bees and there was bridge comb and burr comb all over, just read the post about wood vervus plastic and yes tehre was lots of burr and bridging on the plastic frames.
Ok where was I, oh yes. I noticed the outside frames had a very light white comb, im guessing honey stores without the honey, and the center appeared to be darker. I pulled out one of the center frames and never seen so many bees :shock: I looked down at the other two frames beside it and saw thousands of bees, well maybe hundreds. I dont think I even started out with so many bees. I tried to find the queen but there were so many bees on the frame I could not tell. I figured with so many bees I most likly have a queen and did not want to disrupt her or make the hive mad.
When checking the hive I used smoke, because I watched John's video and he with everyone else have said to use the smoke. I did not have very much but noticed the bees did not care that Iw as there and were no even on my gloves or flying around the veil :lol:
Now that there are lots of bees in the hive should I feed them since there are no honey stores? Probably so but I thought I should ask. How do I find a queen with so many bees on the frames? Is there a trick to it. I have always been able to find my other two but like I said there are so many bees that I am not use to.
Topic: What are they doing? (Read 3359 times)