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Did you make the frames yourself? I imagine getting the bottom frames out to check is a hassle. This is not a hive for honey then?

It is a pricy initial investment. I am happy you have been successful in capturing so many hives. That is really great.

I was just thinking how we refer to our bees as 'the girls', and the chickens as 'the girls', dairy cattle are girls. Then I remember reading somewhere that women do 68 % of the labor in the world and just now realizing that it isn't just people. I think females are over utilized and under...

Good idea with the rubber band. My husband strung monofilament through the frames and then pressed the wild comb through it. I think the rubber band might be quicker and less messy.

First of all, do not be pessimistic. Let us assume they know what they are doing. Do you have a deep brood box or shallow? Have you removed the outside frames and inspected them yet? If the outside edge frames are full then Yes, I would add another brood box. if you have a super on, then... I...

NICE!

That looks like a good place for them. Congratulations on the new family members!

We will be requeening a hive soon. It is surviving but not thriving. I believe it is, at least, the second swarm for the old queen, if she is still there, The workers might have made a secondary queen. We fed them all winter, and I think that is the only reason they are still there.

If populous wasn't a problem you could hang the frames from the drawer, and pull it out for inspection. That is a sturdy looking box. The bottom will need the beetle drop tray. but I would think Some wood runners to slide in a baking sheet would work. You will have fun turning this into a hive...

They were drones?

My only guess is there is not yet enough pollen for them so they are going for the protein in the pellets. I have a feeder that limits the surface area of the pellets so the chickens won't waste it. I have not seen bees on the feed, but they do go into the coop for the water. I am in Florida...

When you get it figured out please fill us in on what that is. Did they fly off or move back into the hive? The young brood sometimes go to the mouth of the hive and hang out, or wash board, but I have never seen mine off of the hive.

It might be the start of a swarm. Did you see a queen in there?

We went with a nuc box and after they got settled in their new latitude, we moved the frames into the new brood box. Then when they decided to swarm the following year, we transferred some honey and brood into the nuc box, let the swarm drop into the nuc and then started the process over again...

I would rather start with new boxes and buy bees from a bee producer. There is a lot of things to look out for in old hives, beetles, mites, wax moths... It is a lot to deal with right from the start, and if you know that the boxes and foundations are new and clean then that is one thing you do...

I had not thought of that. Good question.

I like that idea. We have the jar sticking up, but we do not get snow so we do not have to worry about clearing that off to replace the feeder. In the summer it gets plenty hot though, Having it inside might help keep the hive cooler for us. One of our brood boxes is almost all capped honey, I...