Help! 1st week of beekeeping, not sure...

[bloggerbee.net]

I just checked the hive, it is my first week of beekeeping and I do not see any brood, I am not sure what is happening? there are pictures on my blog, bloggerbee.net, if anyone knows please let me know if everything is ok.
Thank you,

Bloggerbee

[BerkeyDavid]

Hey Blogger Bee! OK, they are bringing in pollen, which is good. Looks like they built some comb between your frames, probably where your queen cage was.

It is too early for there to be brood, but you should be able to see eggs. I assume the queen is out of the cage?

Hold up the frame with the sunlight to your back and look very carefully for a little egg, standing upright at the bottom of the cell, smaller than a grain of rice.

Look in the comb that is built outside the frame too. You might see it anywhere.

Can you find the queen? If you see eggs, don't worry if you can't find the queen.

p.s. you might want to scrape away the comb that is built outside the frame. I know as a beginner it is hard to destroy that lovely handiwork. So if you cant bring your self to do it dont worry. But make sure that you have now removed the queen cage and pushed the frames together.

[ April 19, 2006, 10:35 AM: Message edited by: BerkeyDavid ]

[RonS]

That industrious work is amazing. In about a week, my bees built the comb from the frame to the queen cage, on both sides. I had to cut it off, but I placed it at the entrance for them to clean up and, hopefully, reuse the wax.

[Michael Bush]

>clean up and, hopefully, reuse the wax

They will clean out the syrup. I've never seen them resuse was that wasn't in the hive and seldom when it was in the hive, unless it was still useful comb somewhere in the hive.

It kind of hurts that theory of how much wax costs that bees don't haul it back wholesale.