Ted Nelson (Criminal Justice teacher-MACC) and I went into the hives today to see if the bees had made any progress. The weather has been rainy in the past few weeks so sunny foraging days have been scarce. All three hives were in about the same condition so I will just describe what we saw once. The first thing I noticed was that the slider bar on the feed scale was still floating! This means that hive number three has not gained or lost a single pound. I was hoping that the bees had increased the weight at least a little.
However, we did find larvae and capped brood in all three hives which means the Carniolan queens are out and laying eggs. We also stumbled across the queen in hive number one, surrounded by a gaggle of workers.
In all three hives, the queen was somewhere near the top. I think with hind site, I should have reversed the order of the bottom two brood supers in order to move the queens into the lower section. Maybe we will do that next week.
So the hives looked healthy. I’ll check in on them next week and hopefully the weather will warm up before the spring nectar flow ends.
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