I now have one hive with three deeps. The newspaper layer is totally gone. The bees did it themselves. I'll watch the two top deeps as things slow down over the next month or so.
- Top deep -
- had a good amount of nectar (maybe because the sugar syrup we in that hive).
- had a bit of capped honey
- no eggs
- some drone brood on the green frame which I removed. I saw mites
- kept the feeder in there but didn't refill yet...probably can use it
- saw NO pollen
- Middle deep
- had a lot of honey
- I moved a few heavy honey frames from here to the top deep
- I moved a few rather empty frames from top to middle
- Saw no brood
- Saw no pollen
- Saw a lot of bees
- Bees are making comb on the drone frame but not filled in yet
- Bottom deep
- Hive loaded with bees
- Saw lots of open brood
- Thankfully I added a few frames for the queen to lay - I was so glad to see this!
- The two deeps above seem to have adjusted into this now requeened hive.
- Because I saw mites...and some dead bees outside that were either from mites or something else or even a bee fight before the hives fully merged.
- Saw mostly capped honey in frames very heavy so I moved them up and replaced with frames that could be used for brood.
- I saw one bee loaded with golden pollen from the goldenrod. I expect to see more of that shortly.
- I need to make sure I can use Oxilic acid after using the strips. I'll need to research that.
- I will try the soak a towel approach with glycerin, soak them together. then wring them out by pressing into another recepticle like described here: https://honeybeesuite.com/oxalic-acid-and-glycerin-for-varroa-mites/
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