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Well opened the hive up today and looked at every frame. I just added a deep yesterday and I basically check the hive every night almost, I just cant help myself, if there is a reason I shouldnt do this someone set me straight. Anyway they have not done anything to the second deep yet that I can tell. The bottom brood chamber has 6 frames completely full, one half full and three empty, New eggs all over the place and lots of empty brood cells on a couple of the frames. I actually got to see several new brood chewing and squeezing there way out of the cells which was very cool. First time for all of this for me. I looked them all over pretty good wings all look good, didnt see any mites but have never seen one so dont know exactly what Im looking for. Also have not yet found my queen, again really dont know what Im looking for or how she looks different other then being bigger. I think I did narrow down what frame she was on though because the bees were all real calm and moving slowly compared to the other frames Some other fellows have talked me in too removing my queen excluder from under my second deep and letting the queen use the honey stores for brood if she wants so Im going to have to open this again in a little while I guess. Ok now for some more questions.
1. Should I get a sticky pad and screen to check for mites as part of prevention?
2. Does opening and inspecting the hive too much hurt anything, I know too basically leave them alone when its cold this winter, or if its raing bad weather etc, I mean on sunny nice days?
3. When should I expect the bees to start draing out comb in the new deep? Im using plastic wax coated foundation and I sprayed it with syrup before putting it in.
4. After the brood emerge from their cells does the queen use these cells to lay in again and again? I did see a bunch of empty brood cells but did not see any new eggs in them.
This is more a comment then a question, there was quite a bit of burr comb yesterday that I removed, it happened to be full of honey man was it good
1. Should I get a sticky pad and screen to check for mites as part of prevention?
2. Does opening and inspecting the hive too much hurt anything, I know too basically leave them alone when its cold this winter, or if its raing bad weather etc, I mean on sunny nice days?
3. When should I expect the bees to start draing out comb in the new deep? Im using plastic wax coated foundation and I sprayed it with syrup before putting it in.
4. After the brood emerge from their cells does the queen use these cells to lay in again and again? I did see a bunch of empty brood cells but did not see any new eggs in them.
This is more a comment then a question, there was quite a bit of burr comb yesterday that I removed, it happened to be full of honey man was it good