Lang updates

Time: 12:30

Weather: Mid 80's - no breeze

Hive 1

Checked on the queen less? hive today. Not seeing feces all over like before. Still some sugar water (1:1) in the internal feeder. Added 5 cups more. Lots of newly emerged bees. They've built up 2 small queen cells (see pic1). Added another frame of brood (mostly capped) from hive 2 to help build up numbers. We'll see how it goes.

Small queen cell right in the center

Hive 2

Removed another frame of brood for hive 1. Moved the full super to the top (4th spot) and put the empty super down (3rd spot). No evidence of comb building in the empty super yet. Replaced the taken brood frames with empty frames (including the foundation-less frame from last week). See in the below picture how much they've drawn out in just 6 days. They'll likely draw out these 2 empty frames before moving up into the empty super. These 2 small combs were pretty full of nectar also. I only removed them because the wooden ware had come from the "sick?" hive (hive2) and I didn't want it in there. I do realize that it's been in there for almost a week now and taking it out now might be pointless.

Wild hive (hive 3)

Still preferring the top entrance. No sign of wax being drawn out in top (3rd) box yet. Not sure how to rearrange these girls so they produce. Might eliminate the top entrance all-together.

Wax drawn out in only 6 days (and full of nectar)

Bad pictures - only had cell phone camera