I sure did disturb the bees this morning! But I needed to give a good inspection and see what was going on in there. I knew I had a lot of bees but knew not much else about the goings on in there.
My green drone frame was loaded with drone brood ready to hatch. I guess my timing was good. That full frame has gone into my freezer and later it will go back on the hive for the bees to clean off. I put an empty drone frame into the upper deep to replace the full one.
The first super (3rd box from bottom) had quite a lot of uncapped honey but was fairly full so I added a new super. I need honey! So hoping they'll keep producing and capping it. I did notice they had some brood in the super too so made sure there was enough empty space below for them to use.
I almost did a split...came very close. But the weather being so cold at night, I didn't want a new hive to get chilled. I think I just want to do a walk away split and hope for the best. My problem is never being able to find the queen. I may need help for the split.
Lastly I added the sugar syrup to the top hive feeder and closed it back up. There was one frame that broke apart as I was taking it out of the hive so I left that out by the hive for them to clean off.
I removed the mouse guard for the afternoon but plan to put it back on tonight as it'll be cold again. 60's in the day, 30's at night. I'm ready for 80-60 weather.
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