A local beekeeper named 'Fuzzy' came by and did most of the work. I learned a bunch of stuff just watching him do his thing.
We went through the top 2 supers, and found:
* the empty foundationless frames in the top super are basically untouched.
* the bees have drawn out a little over 2 frames in the first super
* my frame spacing was still terrible. not sure how that happened, i thought sure we had set it up right last time. Oh well.
* the top bar is pretty much full of honey, with a little drone brood sprinkled in.
* We have 'bee space' issues, probably caused by mixing/matching of frame types (some plastic, some wood), this means that they will be building burr comb to plug gaps into which they don't fit well
* the queen cell from last week looks partially torn down, and empty - no queen in there.
* put a sticky board under the hive for about a day, and caught 37 mites. Not usually considered a problem worth treating until it's over 50 in 24 hrs.
* dead bee quantity is normal
* hive is pretty strong. All is well.
* No stings!
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