Tuesday, June 11, 2013

I left the bees to themselves for a couple days so they could settle into their new home.  They are doing well and seem to be growing in numbers, thankfully.  I've been dreading looking into the hive, because I was afraid that I didn't leave enough space between the frames when I set them in the hive.  I wanted to give the bees a little more beespace so I set a couple sticks between each of the frames so they are not leaning against each other.  Hopefully, that will make them happier.

They still haven't started building any more comb, but I'm hoping that eventually they will fill up the frames and they will figure out that they need to start building again.  A couple of the frames were not entirely drawn out yet, so I suppose that they will finish those first.

The bees are still pretty calm, so I'm guessing the queen is still doing well.  It was interesting because to move the frames and insert the sticks I had to pull a lot of top bars off.  As I pulled more top bars off, you could hear the buzz of the hive increase while they started becoming more tense.  Then they got more calm as I put more bars back on.  Let's hope they start building by the next time I check.

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