I went into the hive and spent quite some time looking things over. Here are the things I did and what looked for:
- I saw a lot of babies
- sass lots of brood and egg so should have a queen but didn't see her
- Noticed just a few dead bees on the bottom board and cleaned them off
- Cleaned off comb where it shouldn't be
- removed the brood from the drone frame which the bees had built with comb and filled quite a lot. I didn't bother to freeze the mites but just scraped off the brood and left on the lawn for the birds.
- I filled the sugar syrup container again since it was empty again and they'll still need to build comb on the green frame for drone population containment.
- Removed the entrance reducer altogether so bees can come and go easier. I had noticed they were bunching up at the entrance during the busy "coming home" times.
Next time
- Remove varroa mite strips
- Add a super
- Remove feeder and replace with new frame
- Possibly start a Nuc
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