Sorry but I've never even seen a beehive before , never been close. Last night my daughter and I drove two hours to a apiary and the owner loaded my boxes on the back of the truck ,frame by frame from her nuc boxes! What an education and scary as hell! I couldn't believe how involved the frames were and the shear numbers! Again Iam very new, like eight hours new! Wow wow wow. Anyway I got a frame by frame introduction and for starts I could only see a few things she was talking about. I couldn't see eggs, I couldn't see anything but warm fuzzy bees! I did find one queen and got a atta boy but I think Iam screwed! One nuc was queen less and I got to see a nuc box that had a bunch of queen cages in it- crazy, row after row of caged queens. The lady put her in with my frames and closed it up? Hope it works out? She didn't like my foundation less frames , she said they would encourage drone comb so she sold me frames with foundation?! Was kinda embarrassed because she kinda scoulded me for not bieng on the ball. She also didn't like my mason jar top feeder I built but after not bieng able to fit her frame feeders and all the other frames said," I guess you'll have to use your little feeder thing " made me laugh that I was a tourist! Any way ,wow, she said feed them and put on another eight frames with foundation in three days if nice weather or five if not nice!?? I read somewhere to add when 70 percent? **** o dear, that's what they where when she loaded them in. Five teaming frames in eight frame boxes!? So in closing my daughter had a blast and thought it was a great adventure and WOW what an amazing insect!!!! Err.... I'll be posting a lot!! Just thought I'd share thanks