honeycombs

I was removing a colony from a sprinkler box at the end of October. When I opened the lid the combs were broken exposing the honey in some capped cells which appeared to be fermenting. Was this really fermenting or are the bubbles caused by something else? In my experience bees don't usually...

I have a colony of bees which has decided to build it's nest, fully exposed, in a bush. I'm in San Diego so obviously the weather is going to be kind to them, even the rain probably won't present a problem, we only had about 6¾" last year. The question which occurred to me is how are they...