First up: the top bar that we added is nicely built out:
That's a 19" top bar (same as a langstroth frame) after 1 week of baking time. Not bad!
Since the hive is full, we decided to add a super. Charlie painted it up nice and yellow, and made some bee stamps to liven it up.
Nice!
Although she claimed no bees were harmed in the inspection, the clump of dead/injured ones at the front door seems to indicate otherwise :) I'm pretty sure she did better than me though. I definitely squished a few.
Quick report:
* top bar looks great, bees are busy building comb on it
* no queen cells sighted
* super had some capped brood
* charlie said she saw brood about, so queen is probably OK.
* at least 2 deep frames of pollen (cells half full, not topped off yet)
We're about 3 weeks since the bees moved in, so whatever they do now is responding to the environment here. (or i've lost the head start i had, depends how you want to look at it) It takes ~21 days for bees to go from egg to worker, so all new bees from here on out were laid at hazelwood manner, not brought here as babies. :)
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