I inspected my hive today, probably should have left them alone but couldn't help it!
I put this swarm in the first deep and added a second deep two weeks later. Now after six weeks I inspected again, actually have been in there once a week. Last week I put on a medium super.
Today. There were bee's in the super but nothing has been drawn out. In the top box frames 1,2 9,10 had some drawn comb but nothing else. Frames 3 to 8 were drawn both sides, I found some brood in frames 5 and six. I moved two drawn frames out to the outside and moved frames 1 and 10 into 4 and 7. The brood in this box was not all that tight and had as much honey in the frames as it did brood. Last week was all honey and no brood? Lot's of bees though five frames covered.
Bottom deep brood. Frames 1 and ten not drawn out. Frames 2,3 8 and 9 drawn and full of honey, Frames 4,5,6,and seven drawn and mixed brood and honey, again probably six frames covered with bees, Did not see the queen. Did not see the swarm cells that I saw last week? Did see a little drone cell, first time I have seen these. Brood was spotty here and there with honey all around. Some pollen but not a lot. I did not see queen and havn't seen her yet. Did not see eggs or larva this time. Might just not have looked at the right frame and I didn't move the bees off of the frames. I did move frames 1 and ten that were not drawn out to 3 and 7 with drawn honey in spots 1 and ten.
Ok so how am I doing so far? As this is the first hive I have ever had I need all the advice and encouragement I can get. Oh and I pulled one old solid plastic frame of drawn honey, I don't like the plastic after what I have read here so I pulled it and placed it in front of the hive for them to rob and put in a new wood frame with Dadent Plasticell in it's place.
Am I really slowing these bee's down by going frame to frame each week? I think from what I saw I need to leave them alone now till at least the end of July, two weeks. I still have a lot of thistle flowering and the wild carrot is comming out. My neighbors beens havn't flowered yet either. I put the super back on just cause.
Also on the plastic frame i pulled, I stoll a little of the honey off of it! WOW! it was GREAT!!!
K any advice on what I am doing or what I should do would be helpful here. Thanks Harv