Not much to report today, except make sure you find a heavy rock to put on your beehive cover. I remembered mine last night right before the thunderstorm hit. I ran outside and put the rock on top and a few minutes later the thunderstorm with 60+ mph winds hit. The top for my hive is pretty heavy, but if the wind happened to catch the lid, it would have at least shifted.
The bees are doing okay, and it looks like the bees are trying to fill in the space that I left them in the brood nest. I put the feeder with sugar water in the swarm side to give them extra food to start building their comb. I'm not going to disturb that side again for a couple days.
The package side is still in their cluster. It's pretty cool how they are all hanging together from each other. It's unbelievable if you try to imagine humans trying to do that.
Nice job on the frame cutting! You may want to check to make sure that can of syrup is not plugged up and if you can, give them real sugar water. I hope they start building comb by this weekend...
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