Hive inspection today - 7/16/16

I went into the hive today to see how things are going.  I needed to look in the brood box since I had seen  some comb when looking through the bottom opening and figured there had to be a lot of misplaced comb down there.  And I didn't get to that box the last time I inspected so it needed to be looked at.

It really wasn't too bad but I took off the comb and checked the frames.  I could see some uncapped honey on a few frames, but also saw just the right mix of capped honey, brood and pollen.  And there sure are enough bees!  I didn't see the queen but saw eggs in cells so I know she's in there somewhere if I didn't kill her in this inspection.  I did see a few queen cells which I left alone.  They were actually building a queen cell on the bottom board too but I removed that one and left the other two I had seen on frames.

I upset the bees today because I got into each box. As I went out just now to take the photo below, I had bees surrounding me and they aren't happy.  I'll leave them alone now for a few weeks.

the leaning hive... I put extra cement block to steady it but it won't get fixed until next time I take the entire hive apart like today. I didn't realize was leaning until it was all put back together.

Here's what I did today:

• Removed misplaced comb which I'll use for candles later in the year
• Checkerboarded the two supers.  The bottom super was almost full so since we have a few more months where they should be making honey, I thought I'd give this technique a try.
• Inspected for queen and brood
• Checked for honey stores in second box (these are filling up nicely!)
• Opened another vent (hole in box) to give them more air circulation. This morning, bees were bearding outside the hive which is caused by poor ventilation.
• Added more sugar syrup to top hive feeder.