Lang inspections

Time: 11:00 am
Temperature: 80 ish

Started with hive 1 - 3 deep langs. Hive activity at the entrance is very very low. This was our strongest hive 2 months ago. Suspect that the bees absconded (midnight swarm). Excrement all over landing board and front of hive. Also around the top entrance. Almost no bees whatsoever in the top super. Very little honey. Most bees were in the 2nd super. Lots of drones. Lots of excrement all over the frames, the bees and even the floor. Very few and scattered larva. Very few and scattered capped brood (and many of those are drones). No eggs that I saw. Very foul smell in the hive. Busted open some drone cells and found mights.

Hive 3 (wild lang) - 2 deep langs. Bees still prefer top entrance. Lots of activity. Top box full of honey with some brood. Bottom box mostly filled up with brood. Found the queen. Lots of bees. Added an empty super. Still a chalk brood here and there on the bottom.

Hive 2 - 3 deep langs. Lots of activity. Top box packed full of honey (above queen excluder) 2nd box full of honey and brood with some queen cells (supercedure cells - one of them capped). Lots of brood in the bottom box. Did find mites. Need to add a super but do not have one.

Pictures to follow.

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