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First year, one hive, Italians.
Two weeks ago I added a second deep hive, alternating its foundationless frames with foundationed frames from the first deep. Bees are building great, straight comb. The queen has been an amazing egg-layer, filling up the foundationed frames in short order with just a few drone lining the bottoms.
Today, on my inspection, I noticed that all of the fresh new comb has been filled with drone brood--the cell size is noticeably bigger. I only checked four of the ten foundationless, but they were uniformly drone. Other than that, I have a textbook healthy hive.
Should I be concerned with this?
Anja
First year, one hive, Italians.
Two weeks ago I added a second deep hive, alternating its foundationless frames with foundationed frames from the first deep. Bees are building great, straight comb. The queen has been an amazing egg-layer, filling up the foundationed frames in short order with just a few drone lining the bottoms.
Today, on my inspection, I noticed that all of the fresh new comb has been filled with drone brood--the cell size is noticeably bigger. I only checked four of the ten foundationless, but they were uniformly drone. Other than that, I have a textbook healthy hive.
Should I be concerned with this?
Anja