Just an update on the large swarm.
I opened up the box and they had built 8 empty frames, I had added a wood guide strip and coated the edges with wax, they built wanly comb on an old plastics frame and left the other plastic elk frame on touched. After pulling the 2 plasticicell frames I could see they had a lot of comb below. I picked up the whole box and turned it sideways. This allowed me to cut all of the comb and place it into medium frames. My wife helped me through the whole ordeal. Up until now she has never put her hands in a hive. She was holding frames full of bees then she was holding comb with bees and then she was cutting the wax from the bottom of the frames. All this in one afternoon. A real trooper. We built the hive on top of a wagon so that we can move it to the new site. We filled the bottom box with the already filled frames and the second box is filled with all of the cut out comb. I added a box of drawn comb above that so now it is a 3 medium box. The box with frames had 6 frames of brood and 2 frames of honey. The rest of the comb was all wet and capped brood. Pretty good for a 2 week old hive.
Jim
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