I went into the hive this week...just a week after my last inspection. This time, I think I saw the queen in the most outside frame in the lower deep.
But I didn't see any eggs in the lower deep this time. I saw some eggs in the upper deep though, but not many. And I saw one frame that had a bunch of drone brood so I removed that frame.
There were still a lot of bees but I'm not really sure what's going on right now. Could it be a new queen I saw? I did find an empty queen cell so maybe the queen I saw was a new queen that hasn't had her flight yet.
Last week's sugar syrup was gone so I added more. I left the supers on the hive for another few weeks and then I'll take off what I can and hope to see more eggs in the hive.
It's mushroom foraging season. At this time of year, my free time is spent walking in the woods looking for mushrooms. Yesterday I found some lobster mushrooms and various fresh boletes, including porcini. There were others but weren't fresh enough to take. Then time was spent cleaning and frying up. Then into the freezer. Sometimes I dry the harvest but it depends. Some mushrooms dry up very well, like black trumpets. Others, like chanterelle, get rubbery if you dry them so I fry them up and then freeze them. That works well.
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